+1, contingent upon the following: are we agreeing that all current uses of 
TEXT, IMAGE, and so forth in TestExpectations should be in the *very near term* 
following Dirk's change be turned into -failing files?

-Filip


On Aug 17, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Ojan Vafai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Asserting a test case is 100% correct is nearly impossible for a large 
> percentage of tests. The main advantage it gives us is the ability to have 
> -expected mean "unsure".
> 
> Lets instead only add -failing (i.e. no -passing). Leaving -expected to mean 
> roughly what it does today to Chromium folk (roughly, as best we can tell 
> this test is passing). -failing means it's *probably* an incorrect result but 
> needs an expert to look at it to either mark it correct (i.e. rename it to 
> -expected) or figure out how the root cause of the bug.
> 
> This actually matches exactly what Chromium gardeners do today, except 
> instead of putting a line in TestExpectations/Skipped to look at later, they 
> checkin the -failing file to look at later, which has all the advantages Dirk 
> listed in the other thread.
> 
> I'm much more comfortable with this proposal.
> 
> - Ryosuke
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