Hi Team, Just a suggestion and it can be ignored, just to avoid clutter on GitHub by having empty files or blank files with single line as a result of "test cases", why not we have special header: <meta name="empty-test-file-expectation" /> So when those test run, EWS will know that the empty file is to be generated for this and rather than comparing with empty files (cluttering Webkit GitHub), it can be just done automatically within the tool. It will help us delete at least few empty or blank expectation files and make repo cleaner. Just wanted to raise this as feature / enhancement request of test infrastructure. Thanks!
I don't think that we should do this. Having a second way to declare expectations will be forever confusing to engineers, and will complicate webkitpy code. It's better to only have one place to look at than multiple. We do have a similar feature for test options, and the experience of having it is not great. The reason why we still have it is that there isn't an alternative way to set these test options. Notably, it's not using a <meta>, but custom syntax, because run-webkit-tests doesn't understand HTML.