[QA] Automated Installer tests

Wed Oct 23 14:36:48 UTC 2013

Hi Markus,

If I understand correctly, you want to automate the steps that a user would
take, in a browser, in order to install Mediawiki on a local system.  Is
that correct?  So your test would be something like

* Open some URL in a browser
* Type some text
* Select some options
* Click next
* Check the success message on the new wiki main page.

You will not need to create any gems.

You might want to watch the presentation that I gave in San Francisco on
the basic mechanism of writing a Cucumber test.  It is a little long, the
interesting part starts just over 40 minutes in (and the sound gets better
40 minutes in also):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dg6B5i0RM8

I am Ccing the QA mail list, we have a number of people who might have an
interest in helping support 3rd party Mediawiki work.

We should be able set up a pairing session with either Željko Filipin or me
(or a volunteer?) sometime soon. What is the best time for you?  Željko is
in Croatia, I am in western USA.

-Chris

PS.  That page on mediawiki.org is a little out of date, I'll be updating
it.

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Markus Glaser <glaser at hallowelt.biz> wrote:

> Hi Chris,****
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> I am contracted by the Foundation to care about MediaWiki releases. One of
> my tasks is to write automated installer tests via GUI. I guess, Selenium
> is a good option here J . So I am currently trying to understand the
> current Selenium test setup. I took this page as an entry point:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Running_tests. Since I
> am new to cucumber (I wrote and used SeleniumFramework before), I still
> have to get a grasp of the architecture, though. Is it correct that I need
> to write a “gem” and model the installer page there, in order to use
> natural language test descriptions?****
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