[css-backgrounds] 20+ tests need correction; others need review

Hello,

At least 20 tests have significant issues (incorrect, bad linkage, not 
streamlined, can not fail, unclear target, insufficiently challenging) 
and I suspect that a bunch of others (say, 20) need thorough review. 
Now, tests with broken linkage have been reported before < 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-css-testsuite/2016Dec/ > and 
have not been corrected nor been identified as GitHub issues.

I am not looking or trying to blame anyone: I know we're all very busy 
and there are many CSS modules. But I am saying that CSS3 Backgrounds 
and Borders test suite coverage, at first sight, seems to me 
insufficient (for sure, §6. Border Images; some other sections too) and 
40-ish tests need to be corrected and/or reviewed.



Bad linkage of 9grid40-30-20-10-lime.png
========================================

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-slice-005.htm
(wrong filename!)

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-slice-007.htm
(this test is currently the only test in the CSS3 Backgrounds and 
Borders test suite testing the 'fill' reserved keyword.
Worse: 9grid40-30-20-10-lime.png file does not exist in Microsoft's 
codebase.)


Bad linkage of border-image.png
===============================

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-repeat-space-1.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/reference/border-image-repeat-space-1-ref.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-repeat-space-2.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/reference/border-image-repeat-space-2-ref.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-repeat-space-3.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/reference/border-image-repeat-space-3-ref.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-repeat-space-4.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/reference/border-image-repeat-space-4-ref-1.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/reference/border-image-repeat-space-4-ref-2.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/border-image-repeat-space-5.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/reference/border-image-repeat-space-5-ref-1.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/reference/border-image-repeat-space-5-ref-2.htm


Bad linkage of cat.png
======================

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/background-size-aspect-ratio.htm


Bad linkage of 2 reticule images
================================

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/reference/border-image-repeat-space-6-ref.htm

http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/reference/border-image-repeat-space-7-ref.htm


Bad reference
=============

http://test.csswg.org/harness/test/css-backgrounds-3_dev/single/css3-background-size-001/format/html4/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-css-testsuite/2016Sep/0019.html


Incorrect
=========

http://test.csswg.org/harness/test/css-backgrounds-3_dev/single/background-size-035/format/html4/
http://test.csswg.org/suites/css-backgrounds-3_dev/nightly-unstable/html4/background-size-035.htm
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-css-testsuite/2016Sep/0020.html

Gérard

Received on Thursday, 21 September 2017 22:39:46 UTC