Re: Time for tests with script to settle?

On Oct 1, 2010, at 10:10 AM, fantasai wrote:

> On 09/30/2010 11:30 AM, L. David Baron wrote:
>> Is there a known time that I can use for when to screenshot a test
>> in the CSS 2.1 test suite after its onload fires?
>> 
>> For example, if a testcase makes DOM manipulations 100ms after
>> onload and requires those manipulations to have happened for the
>> test to be valid, I can't screenshot it until after those 100ms have
>> passed.
>> 
>> Currently I'm running screenshots after a 2 second pause, but that
>> makes doing the test runs really slow; I'd like to reduce it.
> 
> I have no idea. Most of the ones you and bzbarsky submitted use
> other means to force reflow. The others I've come across were
> by hixie and Gabreiele; I'm not sure about those.
> 
> The dynamic tests should all be flagged with the 'dom' flag,
> which should help you with this... Can you grep for setTimeout
> or something?

I think the ideal solution would be for the test harness to inject some JS
that the script can call, if present, when the test is complete.

Simon

Received on Friday, 1 October 2010 20:26:51 UTC