24.07.2016, 23:08, "Lay Kuan Loh" <l...@andrew.cmu.edu>: > Hi all, > > Newcomer to webkit here.
You're welcome :) > > I am trying to modify WebKit for my own purposes. I do not plan to ship my > modifications to the official codebase. If you accidentally make (whatever small) improvements which can be useful for other WebKit users, please consider upstreaming them. Every little piece counts. > > How would I check that the changes I make to WebKit did not break anything? > For instance, I am making changes to the file > WebKit/Source/WebCore/dom/Element.cpp and would like to test them > incrementally. You need to run Layout Tests. Read articles from https://trac.webkit.org/wiki#LayoutTests You don't need to run all tests at once, run-webkit-tests allows you to specify directory or individual test files. > > From reading the documentation on using WebKit, it seems that I need to build > the entire codebase by running build-webkit each time I want to test a new > change I made. Given that it takes about 90 min to run the build on my > laptop, this seems like an inefficient way of developing webkit. Incremental rebuilds usually take much less time. > > I am trying to modify WebKit for my own purposes. I do not plan to ship my > modifications to the official codebase. > > How would I check that the changes I make to WebKit did not break anything? > For instance, I am making changes to the file > WebKit/Source/WebCore/dom/Element.cpp and would like to test them > incrementally. > > From reading the documentation on using WebKit, it seems that I need to build > the entire codebase by running build-webkit each time I want to test a new > change I made. Given that it takes about 90 min to run the build on my > laptop, this seems like an inefficient way of developing webkit. > > Am I missing something obvious, on how to speed up testing my changes to > WebKit? I've googled around but for some reason can't find any clear > instructions on doing this. > > I've also posted the same question to stack overflow here. > > Thanks! > , > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-help mailing list > webkit-help@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-help -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ webkit-help mailing list webkit-help@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-help
