Wait for the pending candidate before updating the pointer These tests mutate the media element while the resource selection algorithm is parked on a candidate, then check which sources get processed. They did the mutation from a script that runs during parsing. Per spec that is late enough: "await a stable state" queues a microtask, and the parser performs a microtask checkpoint at </script>, so the pointer is (b | c) with b pending by then. No engine resumes there. Firefox Nightly, Chrome Canary and Safari TP all run the synchronous section in a task, so the mutation landed before the algorithm had started and the tests measured tree order rather than the pointer update rules. Two of them failed for that reason alone (pointer-insert-source and pointer-remove-source, on x1); the other four happened to expect the same result under either timing, so they passed without testing anything about the pointer. Wait for video.currentSrc to become source b's URL instead. currentSrc is set in the "process candidate" step, after the pointer has advanced and before the resource fetch algorithm runs, so it directly observes the state these tests need, under either timing. Polling is used rather than an event because no event works: loadstart is queued before the mode-specific steps, and engines disagree on whether a source's error task is dispatched before or after the pointer advances. Each test also asserts that b is still pending at that point, so a wrong sync point fails loudly instead of silently measuring something else. pointer-remove-text.html additionally iterated a live childNodes while removing from it, which skipped entries and only removed every text node by coincidence of the alternating markup. Snapshot the list and assert the removal happened. pointer-remove-source-after.html did its four removals in four separate parse-time scripts, which under the new sync point collapse into one step. Firefox Nightly now passes all six, including the two that failed before. Chrome Canary and Safari TP still fail all six on "error events on c", which is unrelated: both fail the unmodified pointer-control.html the same way, because a source with no src that follows a failed src-bearing source never fires error.
The web-platform-tests Project is a cross-browser test suite for the Web-platform stack. Writing tests in a way that allows them to be run in all browsers gives browser projects confidence that they are shipping software that is compatible with other implementations, and that later implementations will be compatible with their implementations. This in turn gives Web authors/developers confidence that they can actually rely on the Web platform to deliver on the promise of working across browsers and devices without needing extra layers of abstraction to paper over the gaps left by specification editors and implementors.
The most important sources of information and activity are:
wpt:matrix.org matrix channel; includes participants located around the world, but busiest during the European working day.If you'd like clarification about anything, don't hesitate to ask in the chat room or on the mailing list.
Clone or otherwise get https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt.
Note: because of the frequent creation and deletion of branches in this repo, it is recommended to “prune” stale branches when fetching updates, i.e. use git pull --prune (or git fetch -p && git merge).
See the documentation website and in particular the system setup for running tests locally.
The wpt command provides a frontend to a variety of tools for working with and running web-platform-tests. Some of the most useful commands are:
wpt serve - For starting the wpt http serverwpt run - For running tests in a browserwpt lint - For running the lint against all testswpt manifest - For updating or generating a MANIFEST.json test manifestwpt install - For installing the latest release of a browser or webdriver server on the local machine.wpt serve-wave - For starting the wpt http server and the WAVE test runner. For more details on how to use the WAVE test runner see the documentation.On Windows wpt commands must be prefixed with python or the path to the python binary (if python is not in your %PATH%).
python wpt [command]
Alternatively, you may also use Bash on Ubuntu on Windows in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update build, then access your windows partition from there to launch wpt commands.
Please make sure git and your text editor do not automatically convert line endings, as it will cause lint errors. For git, please set git config core.autocrlf false in your working tree.
The master branch is automatically synced to wpt.live and w3c-test.org.
Save the Web, Write Some Tests!
Absolutely everyone is welcome to contribute to test development. No test is too small or too simple, especially if it corresponds to something for which you've noted an interoperability bug in a browser.
The way to contribute is just as usual:
git checkout -b topic../wpt lint as described above.Use of LLMs to help author tests is generally acceptable, but every change must be attributable to a human who understands and can take responsibility for the proposed change.
Use of LLMs to participate in discussions is generally not acceptable; any LLM-generated content must either be from a bot account or contained inside a <blockquote> (for short contributions of at most one paragraph) or <details> element.
For full details see the Policy for LLM Use
If you spot an issue with a test and are not comfortable providing a pull request per above to fix it, please file a new issue. Thank you!