test timeout observation

While looking for examples of timeouts not being reported as failures, the
persistent session tests for Clear Key stood out. Only one of the six shows
a result in the "all" page.

http://www.w3c-test.org/encrypted-media/clearkey-mp4-playback-persistent-license.html
times out in all three browsers, and when I run it, it is just blank for a
long time until I see:

> Harness status: Error
> Uncaught ReferenceError: qualifier is not defined


http://www.w3c-test.org/encrypted-media/clearkey-mp4-playback-persistent-usage-record.html,
in contrast, times out immediately

> Harness status: OK
> ...
>
Timeout org.w3.clearkey, successful playback, persistent-usage-record, mp4,
> set src before setMediaKeys

NotSupportedError: None of the requested configurations were supported.


Observations:

   - Harness ERROR is reported as a timeout.
   - A timeout in the test is not reported.
   - It's strange that the second test times out immediately even though it
   fails as we would expect.
   - These two playback should in theory be very similar but fail
   differently. Maybe that is because the first loads the session before
   playback (I assume).

Received on Tuesday, 30 August 2016 15:44:30 UTC