Re: Unifying testsuite policy and getting rid of CSS exceptions

On 16/09/17 04:51, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:42 PM Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote:
> 
>> Given that there are costs associated with moving tests around, I’m
>> slightly in favor of leaving current tests where they are.
>>
> 
> Can you elaborate a bit on this? I don't disagree that there is *some*
> cost, but at least from my vantage point it seems quite acceptable. When
> tests are renamed we deal with it in the Chromium import process, and
> doesn't require us to treat all of the renamed files as if they were new.
> If there are other bits of tooling that don't handle renames well, I
> wouldn't mind investing a bit of time fixing that.

Our import process doesn't (currently) deal with moving tests well. We 
can and should improve that. However a one-time patch moving lots of 
paths is something that we could deal with manually, so that shouldn't 
be a blocker to choosing a better organisation.

Received on Saturday, 16 September 2017 05:00:12 UTC