- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:03:38 -0700
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: "GΓ©rard Talbot" <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org>, Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>, CSS-testsuite <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
On Tuesday 2012-06-26 01:15 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > Take https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571708 as a simple > example. That's a perfectly good bug report, you can read half a dozen > of lines of code and see that they should have no effect on what the bug > is about, `ctx.translate` and `ctx.fillRect` should not affect what the > `ctx.fillStyle` property is set to, so setting `ctx.fillStyle` to the > value that it has already been set to should have no effect. It does, > though, very obviously so, so there is a bug. I should be able to submit > this bug "to the W3C" without complaints how it's not a "reftest" or how > my variable naming conventions do not match some guidelines or about how > I do not have <link> elements linking the sections in the relevant (non- > existant) Recommendation or whatever else might be wrong with the bug. I think there's one point here that you're missing, which is that the argument about a single bug or test doesn't completely extend to thousands: when you're talking about hundreds or thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of tests, automatability of the tests (either reftests or testharness.js tests) is important. Otherwise, however, I agree with your points. -David -- π L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ π π’ Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ π
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