10.08.2010, в 11:51, Eric Seidel написал(а):

> Why do we want to be running these 6000 tests and slowing down our
> builds.  I was talking with jamesr, and he seemed to think it adds
> little value to run it every time?  (It was supposedly written as more
> of a development tool for V8?)  But maybe I'm missing something?


Just like any test suite, it catches regressions. We saw that it was effective 
when we introduced certain JSC regressions that it could have prevented. Since 
some of the errors Sputnik catches are platform specific (32 bit vs. 64 bit, 
JIT vs. interpreter etc), it is particularly important to have it on build bots.

Some subtests are less interesting (e.g. many Unicode tests basically check ICU 
behavior), so we have the slowest of those disabled already.

One possible way to speed up Sputnik tests would be to run them as part of 
run-javascriptcore-tests, avoiding web page overhead. Someone proficient in 
scripting languages just needs to improve run-javascriptcore-tests to the point 
when it can do that.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov

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