This document provides tips and tricks for reproducing and debugging flakes in Web Platform Tests (WPTs). As WPTs are a form of Web Test, you may also wish to refer to the documentation on Addressing Flaky Web Tests.
See also the documentation in Addressing Flaky Web Tests.
WPT tests have to be loaded from a server, wptserve, to run properly. In a terminal, run:
./third_party/blink/tools/run_blink_wptserve.py
This will start the necessary server(s), and print the ports they are listening on. Most tests can just be loaded over the main HTTP server (usually http://localhost:8001), although some may require using the HTTPS server instead.
To load a WPT test in content_shell, run:
out/Default/content_shell http://localhost:8001/path/to/test.html
Here, the path/to/test.html is relative to the root of third_party/blink/web_tests/external/wpt, e.g. dom/historical.html.
Caveat: As with all Web Tests, running content_shell like this is not equivalent to what run_web_tests.py runs. See the same section in Addressing Flaky Web Tests for more details and some suggestions. In addition to that list, some WPTs (usually security-related) also expect a real domain and may behave differently when loaded from localhost.