Google’s Sputnik JavaScript Conformance Test Now In Browser
JavaScript performance is been taking hype for web-browser makers recently, but then while everybody is trying to make their browser faster they are intangibly losing focus on the fact that JavaScript has to be interpreted accurately, not just fast. Last year, Google launched an interesting set of JavaScript conformance tests packed under the name of Sputnik. Now, the developers are making it simpler for everyone to essentially use the tests by making the whole suite available inside the browser itself.
Christian Plesner Hansen, Software Engineer at Chromium wrote -
Last June, we launched the Sputnik JavaScript conformance test suite, a comprehensive set of more than 5000 tests. Today we’re releasing a test runner for Sputnik, that allows you to easily run the complete test suite from within your browser.
Sputnik touches all aspects of the JavaScript language defined in the 3rd edition of the ECMA-262 spec. In many ways it can be seen as a continuation of and a complement to existing browser conformance testing tools, such as the Acid3 test. While we are always focused on improving speed, Sputnik is not about testing how fast your browser executes JavaScript, but rather whether it does so correctly, he adds
According to Google’s own testing Sputnik on a Windows machine, it came up unbiased and interesting following results: Opera 10.50: 78 failures, Safari 4: 159 failures, Chrome 4: 218 failures, Firefox 3.6: 259 failures and Internet Explorer 8: 463 failures. The Sputnik test suite shows that Opera 10.50, the latest stable version of the browser, comes closest to hitting the mark of 0 failed tests, which was unexpected result. If you wish to run the test yourself then visit Sputnik.
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October 12th, 2011 at 6:26 am
Such a great analysis! I have no clue how you wrote this report..it’d take me weeks. Well worth it though, I’d assume. Have you considered selling ads on your blog?
October 16th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
Oh, a great written report! No idea how you managed to write this post..it’d take me long hours. Well worth it though, I’d suspect. Have you considered selling ads on your website?