Self-certification for Testing review gate on chromestatus.com

[Jason Robbins]

Hello feature owners,

I'm writing to announce two process changes for the Testing review gate on chromestatus.com.

1. Starting this week, chromestatus.com will allow self-certification for the Testing review gate. On that gate, feature owners will now see a list of five checkboxes that define a minimum bar for automated testing. If the feature's test coverage satisfies all of the criteria, the feature owner will be offered the option to self-certify when they request a review. 

The change streamlines the development process by guiding feature owners to provide needed test automation, and by reducing human review time for those features that qualify.  Review requests for features that need special testing effort will follow the existing process with the existing survey questions and review by the testing team.

2. Starting next week, the dev trials stage will ask feature owners to be more specific about which web platform tests are relevant to a feature.  The existing single checkbox for the existence of web platform tests will be replaced with a tree of checkboxes to select specific tests.  

The tree will be populated based on the Web Feature ID specified in the metadata section of the chromestatus feature entry.  So, please be sure that your entries have the correct Web Feature ID, and that appropriate WEB_FEATURES.yml files have been landed in the web-platform-tests repo.

This change will increase the usefulness of chromestatus entries for upcoming AI-powered test coverage and generation functionality.

Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

Thanks,

jason! (on behalf of the chromestatus team)