Re: Generating manifests for the test runner

Hi Brad,

./tools/scripts/manifest.py --experimental-include-local-changes

You need to feed the script that "--experimental-include-local-changes" switch.

Sorry this hasn't been better documented yet.

  --Mike

Brad Hill <hillbrad@gmail.com>, 2014-07-22 13:55 -0700:

> 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
> 
> 

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