Re: Generating manifests for the test runner

Hi Brad

Does the README.rst at [1] help?

Thanks

Kawamori

[1] https://github.com/w3c/wptrunner



On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:55 AM, Brad Hill <hillbrad@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any documentation on how to use the manifest.py generator for
> the WPT  test runner?
>
> (Other than just reading through 600 lines of almost completely
> uncommented code?  I'm a python newbie.)
>
> I'm creating a new set of tests in a new directory and want to try
> them in the runner, but when I try to run the tool I get "Not writing
> manifest because working directory is not clean."  It's not an error
> that's really helping me out...
>
> Can I not run the tool until I've committed my tests? Until they've
> been pushed to my remote fork? Merged to the upstream master?
>
> Do I need to write a manifest for my test cases?
>
> Is it just generated automatically for all the tests?  How do I
> indicate what kind of tests they are?
>
>  It's not obvious to me where to start here, in part because I've
> already run the tool so I don't know what is generated vs. what is
> baseline, and my previous questions indicated that people had checked
> in things that really should've been generated... etc.
>
> thanks,
>
> Brad
>
>