Dear Greg, and anyone else that is involved in deployment This is a follow-up from Dan Duvall's talk today during the metrics meeting about voting browser tests.
Background: The reading web team this quarter with the help of Dan Duvall has made huge strides in our QA infrastructure. The extensions Gather, MobileFrontend and now the new extension QuickSurveys are all running browser tests on a per commit basis. A selected set of MobileFrontend @smoke tests (a selected subset of all he tests) are running in 15minutes on every commit and the entire set of Gather browser tests is running in around 21minutes. It marginally slows down getting patches deployed... but I think this is a good thing. The results speak for themselves. In the past month (August 4th-September 4th) only 3/33 builds failed for MobileFrontend's daily smoke test build [1] (all 3 due to issues with the Jenkins infrastructure). For the full set of tests only 10/33 failed in the Chrome daily build [3], 8 of which were due to tests being flakey and needing improvement or issues with the Jenkin infrastructure and the two others serious bugs [4,5] brought about by work the performance team had been doing that we were able to fix shortly after. In Firefox [2] there were only 6 failures and only 2 of these were serious bugs, again caused by things outside MobileFrontend [4,6]. One of these was pretty serious - we had started loading JavaScript for users with legacy browsers such as IE6. These were caught prior to the daily builds when suddenly our MobileFrontend commits would not merge. The future!: Given this success: 1) I would like to see us run @integration tests on core, but I understand given the number of bugs this might not be feasible so far. 2) We should run @integration tests prior to deployments to the cluster via the train and communicate out when we have failures (and make a decision to push broken code) 3) I'd like to see other extensions adopt browser test voting on their extensions. Please feel free to reach out to me if you need help with that. The more coverage across our extensions we have, the better. We really have no excuse going forward to push broken code out to our users and at the very least we need to be visible to each other when we are deploying broken code. We have a responsibility to our users. Thoughts? Reactions? Who's with me?! [1] https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/Mobile/job/browsertests-MobileFrontend-SmokeTests-linux-chrome-sauce/ [2] https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/Mobile/job/browsertests-MobileFrontend-en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org-linux-firefox-sauce/ [3] https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/Mobile/job/browsertests-MobileFrontend-en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org-linux-chrome-sauce/ [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108045 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108191 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111233 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
