WMDE-leszek added a comment.
Right, this basically brings us back to the discussion that was happening in T199446 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199446> and in the related patch experiments done by some WMDE engineers. To take the recent failure (T220229 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220229>) as an example, here's what I believe happens: 1. Edit is made with the API (namely, new lexeme is created) 2. Once done, Special:RecentChanges is opened 3. Driver is apparently too fast, as the just made edit has not made it to Recent Changes yet. I see no real way to get around this, as, for valid reasons, Recent changes are populated asynchronously, hence it always be possible, that the recent changes page will be opened before the job updating recent changes has added data from recent edits. Rather dumb approach I could think of would be to have test wait some arbitrary amount of time between making an edit, and opening the special page, but this does not seem like a sustainable approach. Things could get too slow and this is difficult to predict. Also, adding a "sleep" to all tests dealing with recent changes etc would likely make the duration of the test suite run even longer, while it does quite a significant amount of time already. I'd see this as a (rather annoying) hack that hopefully works for some time, but not really a solution. We could also ignore testing integration of our tools with Recent Changes, but as Recent Changes is the critical part of wikis, and integral part of editor work flows, ignoring those parts of the system from automated testing seems wrong, to put mildly. Any ideas how to deal with this? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219584 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: WMDE-leszek Cc: Jakob_WMDE, Aklapper, TerraCodes, hashar, Nikerabbit, greg, KartikMistry, WMDE-leszek, Pablo-WMDE, Liuxinyu970226, Krinkle, alaa_wmde, Nandana, Mringgaard, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, chapulina, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Nizil, Jonas, Ixocactus, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Amire80, Lydia_Pintscher, Jsahleen, Darkdadaah, Arrbee, santhosh, Jdforrester-WMF, Mbch331, Jay8g, Krenair
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