[QA] Acceptance tests that require account creation

Tue Jan 7 22:56:45 UTC 2014

Hi Rodion,

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Rodion Goritskov <rodion at goritskov.com>wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> I have some work experience with Vagrant. At work I use it for maintaining
> a sort of test infrastructure, so now everybody are delighted, except some
> devs, who can't say "oh, it is ok on my machine".
> So, I can help with creating Vagrant environment, but I don't know much
> about the desired infrastructure. If somebody could help with it, we can
> start hacking this idea.
>

What we have today is pretty well documented at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Vagrant

>
> Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org> пишет:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>>>
>>> Another avenue we have discussed is to use Vagrant.  I haven't gone very
>>> far down that path, but it should be possible to share a Vagrant image with
>>> essential test data on it.
>>>
>>
>> This is a little tangential to thread, but I think there are a lot of
>> benefits to using Vagrant - especially if we had an image that replicated
>> production architecture (varnish caching, multiple domains, mobile
>> redirect, etc). This has been on my wish list for a long time now. I
>> discussed it at length with Ori during Wikimania and he started hacking on
>> it a bit, though I have no idea how far he got. Anyway, besides QA
>> purposes, it would be amazing if there was a portable environment that was
>> available to all of us so we can all easily be on the same page. Not that
>> we'd have to all exclusively develop in that environment, but it would be
>> great to have a decentralized way to avoid the 'but it works on my machine'
>> pitfall. Also, it would be rad to be able to hand a Vagrant image to a new
>> dev - we all know how much of a PITA it is to get your local environment
>> configured to run MobileFrontend, particularly in a way that even partially
>> replicates production architecture/settings/etc.
>>
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