Very helpful, Sumana. I'd happily encourage more gossip of this type.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Sumana Harihareswara < [email protected]> wrote: > A few things I learned recently by gossiping with WMF quality assurance > people: > > We're deploying fresh code to the beta cluster ~50 times a day, or maybe > even more often! > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:merged+project:%255Emediawiki.*+-owner:l10n-bot,n,z > shows merged code to MediaWiki core & extensions -- on every merge or > every few minutes, we update the code on > http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ and all the other beta > cluster sites. So right now, beta is the best target for automated > browser tests, but because of some configuration issues, > http://test2.wikipedia.org/ is the best target for manual/exploratory > testing. > > When you're writing automated browser tests (good setup instructions: > https://github.com/wikimedia/qa-browsertests ), "feature files" are a > plain-English communication tool; step definitions are where the magic > happens. So, in features/ , there's step_definitions/ with .rb files, > each corresponding to a feature file. Look through those for some idea > of the neat stuff we can do these days. > > If you want ideas for useful automated browser tests to write, try > looking at recently fixed bugs. That way we'll catch regressions. > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Siebrand Mazeland Product Manager Language Engineering Wikimedia Foundation M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
