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Re: Tentative tests.

From: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 16:17:58 +0000
Message-ID: <CANMdWTuZ948KhrzkkohN3vhxy4N5e=9-maLwKrDVqWGyhX9+Xw@mail.gmail.com>
To: Mike West <mkwst@google.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Mark Dittmer <markdittmer@chromium.org>, Patrick Kettner <patket@microsoft.com>, Philip Jägenstedt <foolip@chromium.org>, public-test-infra@w3.org
On Tue, May 23, 2017, 11:40 AM Mike West <mkwst@google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Mike West <mkwst@google.com> wrote:
>> > 1.  Put the tests in a new file with a `-tentative.*` suffix (e.g.
>> > `//content-security-policy/script-src/new-test-tentative.sub.html`).
>>
>> This doesn't mix with -manual. Not sure if that's a problem, but
>> dot-delimiting might also be okay?
>>
>
> Sure. `.tentative.*` is fine by me.
>
>
>> > 2.  Put the tests in a `tentative` subdirectory of an existing suite
>> (e.g.
>> > `//content-security-policy/tentative/new-script-src-test.sub.html`).
>>
>> We don't assign meaning to directories elsewhere other than informally
>> "resources" / "support". At least, as far as I know. I think I'd
>> prefer just the one convention.
>
>
> I like the directory simply for grouping. If there's a new feature with a
> lot of tests, the suffixes won't sort together as a collected bunch of
> tests that folks who haven't hopped on board with the feature should be
> ignoring.
>
> But if I'm the only one who likes that idea, I'm happy to drop it in favor
> of the simplicity of a single approach.
>

I like this idea as well, but am also fine with starting simple and adding
directory support later based of real world experience.

Glad to see this happen. Thanks for following up.


> -mike
>
Received on Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:18:44 UTC

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