Re: Refactoring SharedWorkers out of Web Workers W3C spec

On 12/16/13 11:20 AM, ext James Graham wrote:
> On 12/12/13 16:20, James Graham wrote:
>> On 12/12/13 15:13, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>>> On 12/11/13 8:42 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote:
>>>> [IR] <http://www.w3.org/wiki/Webapps/Interop/WebWorkers>
>>>
>>> Looking at this link, there are passes marked for obviously incorrect
>>> tests (e.g. see https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24077
>>> which says that
>>> http://w3c-test.org/web-platform-tests/master/workers/interfaces/DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope/postMessage/second-argument-null.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> should fail in any conformant UA, but it's marked as passing in Opera
>>> and Chrome.
>>>
>>> So presumably we will need to rerun the tests in all UAs again once all
>>> the bugs have been fixed, yes?
>>
>> Yes. I have found another couple of trivial bugs in the tests which I
>> will fix up. I will also have a got at fixing Ms2ger's test runner to
>> work in a better way, sort out some way to automate the visual output,
>> and hopefully we can generate a new implementation report with minimal
>> effort.
>
> So, I made a sample implementation report [1] using an in-browser test 
> runner based on Ms2ger's earlier work (see public-test-infra for more 
> details). The browsers are those that happened to be on my computer. I 
> don't intend for anyone to take these results as authoritative, and 
> more work is needed, but it is much better than editing a wiki. And 
> has revealed yet more bugs in the tests.
>
> In time we can use this approach in collaboration with vendors to 
> fully automate generating implementation reports.
>
> [1] http://hoppipolla.co.uk/410/workers.html

James - this is excellent!

Did you run the tests via <http://www.w3c-test.org/testrunner/workers/>? 
What would it take to include Travis's IE results?

-Thanks, ArtB

Received on Monday, 16 December 2013 16:52:54 UTC