[QA] URL-based data creation? Re: Acceptance tests that require account creation

Thu Jan 16 16:45:10 UTC 2014

Niklas, could you discuss your approach in more detail?  This is really
interesting...

-Chris

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Niklas Laxström
<niklas.laxstrom at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2014/1/13 Jeff Hall <jhall at wikimedia.org>:
> > So if this solution seems workable to all concerned, it will accomplish
> the
> > goal of allowing each browser test to create whatever wiki articles it
> needs
> > to satisfy test assertions, and we can easily expand the scope later to
> also
> > allow each browser test to create user logins as needed.
>
> This might not be the same problem exactly, but in the language team
> we have implemented browser test related data creation via URL
> parameter, example: [1] and [2].
>
> Since this will mess with wiki content data, we have a configuration
> variable [3] to protect access so that it doesn't accidentally happen
> on a production wiki.
>
> What I don't like is that we are having test related code inside the
> special page itself. Dedicated API module could be cleaner.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Translate/blob/master/specials/SpecialManageTranslatorSandbox.php#L44
> [2]
> https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Translate/blob/master/tests/browser/features/step_definitions/manage_translator_sandbox_steps.rb#L5
> [3]
> https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Translate/blob/master/Translate.php#L646
>
>   -Niklas
>
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