On May 31, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote:
> I am thinking we should rename layoutTestController to testController. Or if 
> you don’t like that name, maybe testHarness or some even better name.
> 
> "testController" seems like a misnomer since it doesn't really control the 
> test itself. I would prefer testRunnerController or simply testRunner since 
> it's quite self-evident that methods on testRunner would act on the test 
> runner itself.

I like the name testRunner.

> 
> We could expose the object under the new name and the old one, and then over 
> time convert all the tests to the new name, then get rid of the old one.
> 
> That sounds like a good idea.
> 
> Can we also rename LayoutTests to RegressionTests? I know Dave (Hyatt) 
> suggested to cleanup the render tree dump format to get rid of all hacks and 
> tweaks we've added over years, and my preference is to combine all these 
> efforts and put new types of tests in trunk/RegressionTests. We'll move tests 
> from LayoutTests to RegressionTests as we convert. We'll get rid of 
> LayoutTests directory once all tests have been converted to use testRunner 
> and new render tree dump format.
> 
> - Ryosuke
> 
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