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web-platform-tests is a testsuite designed for cross-browser testing of web features like CSS and DOM APIs. | web-platform-tests is a testsuite designed for cross-browser testing of web features like CSS and DOM APIs. | ||
The aim of this project is to allow us to run the full set of web-platform-tests in | Creating, and running, such a testsuite is a crucial part of improving the open web. Whenever a technology has multiple implementations it's very easy to introduce accidental discrepancies that cause poor interoperability. Historically this has been a problem on the web with different browsers all having their own quirks that developers have had to learn and work around. By contributing to the web-platform-tests testsuite we can build up a repository of test cases that can be run by all browser vendors through their development cycle so such issues are caught before they make it into released builds. | ||
The aim of this project is to allow us to run the full set of web-platform-tests in Gecko and Servo, and create an easy workflow for contributing tests back upstream. | |||
= Source and Documentation = | = Source and Documentation = | ||