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Re: [csswg-drafts] [all] Consider policy to ask for web-platform-tests

From: Simon Pieters via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:25:14 +0000
To: public-css-archive@w3.org
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A few thoughts...

* I agree it would be good to document the policy in the repository, and not just have a WG resolution, to make it easier to find and to bring more confidence to the reader (a WG resolution might have been overridden later by a new WG resolution, for example).
* As for timing when it makes most sense to start writing tests for each change, I suggest it is when a feature is shipping in one or more browsers, irrespective of spec status. Experience suggests there is some lag between a feature shipping and it reaching CR, and tests are necessary i the meantime.

In particular, I think writing tests should be culturally part of day-to-day work, as an integral part of fixing spec issues. Applying it to post-CR still seems like testing can be an after-thought, after it has been specified, implemented, shipped, and web content exist that rely on implementation differences that tests were supposed to prevent.

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