Re: [dev-servo] Servo testing as part of PhD dissertation

2016-09-07 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
On 06/09/16 21:58, James Graham wrote: > [not sure if this will make it through to the list] > > On 06/09/16 21:35, Jack Moffitt wrote: >>> I haven't quite settled on my dissertation topic, but my top >>> contender at >>> the moment involves property-based (i.e. QuickCheck style) generation of >>>

Re: [dev-servo] Servo testing as part of PhD dissertation

2016-09-07 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
On 07/09/16 17:13, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 9/7/16 11:55 AM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: >> There are plenty of rendering bugs that don't involve text, and >> practically if you're generating arbitrary web pages it's easy to solve >> all of those problems by simp

Re: [dev-servo] Servo testing as part of PhD dissertation

2016-09-13 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
element. (Of course, this assumes the different UAs create the same treeā€”but HTML parsing is relatively interoperable nowadays and hence not that interesting.) You can then have a fuzziness for each element (I'd try just starting out with one or two!), and work from that. May or may not work