[QA] A browser test challenge

Wed Oct 9 18:25:07 UTC 2013

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Rachel Thomas <rachelqa99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure, I can do maintenance on the existing tests. Sounds like you are
> talking about the browsertests repo, so I will start there first.
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Zeljko and I made a bunch of fixes this morning, but I'm not sure we got
them all.
-Chris

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> --Rachel
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> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>wrote:
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>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Rachel Thomas <rachelqa99 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> Hi Chris/Zeljko,
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>>> I am thinking of writing a test for Twinkle, as it seems to be one of
>>> the more popular gadgets.  What are your thoughts on my testing of that
>>> one?
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>> Hi Rachel,
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>> Since you have some pretty good experience with our suites, what would
>> you think about doing some maintenance on the existing tests?  For example,
>> the build for Firefox on beta labs was all green Oct 1 but now has 10
>> failures.  I'm looking at the test for search right now, I'm guessing an
>> identifier has changed.
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>> But we have some perplexing differences with e.g. the Print/export
>> expand/collapse tests on beta and test2.  I reported
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54886 but I'm not sure
>> that's all of the issue.
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>> Since we've moved the suites into the repos for their extensions (VE,
>> ULS, CirrusSearch, Flow soon), we are working on moving all the shared code
>> into a single gem.  It would be great to have the tests green (or mostly
>> green) before we deploy that big change, so we can tell where the problems
>> might be more easily.
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