Re: Testing and certificates

On 11/10/13 17:20, David Burns wrote:
> I honestly don't see that there should be any difference between 1 and 3.

I think as a practical matter that's kind of horrible. If I am working 
on a testsuite I might reasonably want to try it out on a bunch of 
browsers. Having to start the test environment seperately for each 
browser and track which browser instances are test-compatible and which 
are not doesn't seem like much fun. Plus, depending on the exact design, 
it might not work at all on browsers without explicit support. That's a 
problem if it's IE certainly, but also if it's Servo or some research 
project based on an existing browser engine with just enough changes 
that launching the browser directly won't work.

Also I would like to avoid, as far as possible, requiring something like 
virtualenv + pip to run the tests. Importing a large part of mozbase, 
and equivalents - if indeed they exist - without this is going to be 
ugly at best.

Received on Friday, 11 October 2013 16:31:51 UTC