Bug 130995

Summary:	Web Inspector: reftests should exercise round-trip encode/decode of recordings
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Brian Burg <burg>
Component:	Web Inspector	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	Normal	CC:	graouts, inspector-bugzilla-changes, webkit-bug-importer
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	InRadar
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	136290

Description Brian Burg 2014-03-31 17:15:08 PDT

We should add a new replay phase that serializes the recording to JSON, re-parses it into memory, then replays that recording as a second replay phase. Otherwise, it could be very hard to find bugs in the serialization code.

Comment 1 Brian Burg 2014-03-31 17:16:43 PDT

Note that it's probably a lot of work to compare the in-memory representations of the original and deserialized recording. The original will likely contain some platform-specific stuff that is not necessary for deterministic execution. We really just care that playing the recording results in the same execution.

Comment 2 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2014-03-31 17:17:04 PDT

<rdar://problem/16480349>

Comment 3 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2014-03-31 17:19:14 PDT

<rdar://problem/16480403>

Comment 4 BJ Burg 2017-07-10 14:01:31 PDT

Closing web replay-related bugs until we resume working on the feature again.