On 06/22/2012 10:53 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Chris McMahon <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed >> it as a Weekend Testing Americas session, but it would work equally well at >> Wikimania, and it fits our goal of bringing in more community testing >> nicely: >> > > Speaking of QA, I'd love to participate in a test-writing-a-thon. Currently > I have no idea how to write tests for my code. It would be awesome if I > could learn that at Wikimania. > > —Andrew
This might indeed be a good training session/topic for the pre-Wikimania hackathon. We might be able to repurpose Chad Horohoe's testing training from the fall of 2011 - a lecture on how to write tests, walking attendees through the documentation and teaching them how to run tests. Notes and audio are available: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon/Sunday#Chad.27s_test_training https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Git_notes_-_NOLA_Hackathon_2011.oga "I'll find a simple function we still need a test for, and use it as an example. I'll briefly touch on setting up PHPUnit (with the caveat that *sometimes* it's harder than it should be, so ask if you need extra help). Then dive into how to write the test." You might also like skimming this category and re-filing/moving/creating pages as relevant: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Tutorials -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
