On 10/09/14 19:32, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:44 PM, James Graham <ja...@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote:
>> Yes, I agree too. One option I had considered was making a suite
>> "web-platform-tests-mozilla" for things that we can't push upstream e.g.
>> because the APIs aren't (yet) undergoing meaningful standardisation.
>> Putting the editing tests into this bucket might make some sense.
> 
> That definitely sounds like a great idea, but I think it would be even
> better if upstream had a place for these tests, so we could share them
> with other engines (and hopefully they would reciprocate).  Anyone
> who's just interested in conformance test figures would be free not to
> run these extra tests, of course.  I don't see why upstream would mind
> hosting these tests.

I tend to agree, but I suggest that you bring this up on public-test-infra.

> In the longer term, I think it would be very interesting if all simple
> mochitests were written in a shareable format, and if other engines
> did similarly.  I imagine we'd find lots of interesting regressions if
> we ran a large chunk of WebKit/Blink tests as part of our regular test
> suite, even if many of the tests will expect the wrong results from
> our perspective.

Yes, insofar as "written in a sharable format" means "written in one of
the formats that is accepted into wpt". We should strive to make sharing
our tests just as fundamental a part of our culture as working with open
standards is today.
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