https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58084
--- Comment #17 from Ricordisamoa <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Dan Barrett from comment #11) > Out of curiosity... does this bug have unit tests to make sure it doesn't > recur? > > I've encountered this bug four separate times in the past ~6 years. It seems > to be a common regression. Most textlib functions are already covered by tests and are very unlikely to cause regressions. (In reply to Denniss from comment #12) > Commons user BjørnN mentioned further issues, performing a category page > move if the target cat does not exist. Is this intended behaviour? For other issues: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?component=category.py&list_id=340980&product=Pywikibot&resolution=--- (In reply to Dan Barrett from comment #14) > Fabian: Are you saying that pywikipedia is not unit-tested against a > baseline MediaWiki database? (I had assumed it was.) > > I know it's a lot of work to set up, but IMHO database-backed unit tests are > really worthwhile for program correctness and avoiding regressions. (My team > uses MediaWiki's own PHP-based testing harness all the time to make sure our > wiki extensions work when they modify wiki pages.) This is definitely out of the scope of this bug and should be discussed on Pywikibot-l first. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
