vscode/test/smoke/Audit.md

VS Code Smoke Tests Failures History

This file contains a history of smoke test failures which could be avoided if particular techniques were used in the test (e.g. binding test elements with HTML5 data-* attribute).

To better understand what can be employed in smoke test to ensure its stability, it is important to understand patterns that led to smoke test breakage. This markdown is a result of work on this issue.

Log

1. This following change led to the smoke test failure because DOM element's attribute a[title] was changed: eac49a3

This attribute was used in the smoke test to grab the contents of SCM part in status bar: 0aec2d6

2. To be continued...