If anyone is interested in doing this extension work, come find myself or
Aaron. It's getting easier to add extension APIs. We'd be happy to show
you how.
Erik
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote:
> I think if we should definitely make it possible to run layout tests in
> Chrome. However, supporting all of layout test controller will be a
> considerable amount of work, and I think we always want to maintain the
> simpler test_shell environment for exercising webkit divorced from the rest
> of chrome (to help minimize flakiness).
> Two ways forward: 1) build the layout test controller as an extension, 2)
> build a new multi-process test_shell. I think the first choice would be
> best if we can pull it off.
>
> -Darin
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Mike Belshe <mbel...@google.com> wrote:
>
>> We're still using the test-shell to run the LayoutTests. I just fixed a
>> bug, wrote a layout test, and then realized how dumb I was because the code
>> I was testing was only in Chrome, and not in the test_shell.
>>
>> I think we're accumulating a lot of code that is chrome specific, but
>> which could effect rendering and layout. In my case, I'm working on v8
>> extensions that have been put into the browser, but there is tons of code
>> which differs between chrome and test shell. Not having layout tests for
>> chrome itself is making me a bit nervous.
>>
>> 2 Questions:
>>
>> 1) Any plans already underway to run chrome rather than test_shell through
>> the Layout Tests?
>>
>> 2) Should we create those plans :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>
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