[QA] Tests for MediaWiki vs beta

Thu Jan 23 14:58:59 UTC 2014

I would like to work on this if no one else has already begun

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Chris Steipp <csteipp at wikimedia.org>wrote:
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>>> At the moment, I've cloned into another repo and I'm just fixing the
>>> tests to work for a tarball install, but is there a proper way to extend
>>> those tests so that we don't need an entire new repo for VE vs. non-VE
>>> tests? I see several places that load a different page object for
>>> ie6/phantomjs, is that a good design pattern that I should copy?
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>> It is hard to give a good answer without looking at the code at the same
>> time. I would highly suggest that you pair with somebody familiar with
>> Selenium and Ruby, at least in beginning. Ping me off list if you would
>> like to pair with me.
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> So as I noted above, I did some research into what browser tests for a
> bare wiki would look like.  I looked at both a fresh Mediawiki installation
> on a local machine, and also at a vagrant instance with only the Mediawiki
> role enabled.
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> What I discovered is that our existing tests are just not useful here.
>  Wikipedia wikis are radically different than bare Mediawiki.  So I would
> suggest doing a few things:
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> * Make a repo of tests somewhere whose sole target is a bare wiki, just
> like we have browser tests in ~10 other extension repos whose target is
> extension features.
> * Create a suite of shallow tests for a bare Mediawiki install with no
> data.  I made a bug for that here:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60347 .  (This would be a
> great intern/volunteer project I think).
> * Real Soon Now we will have the ability to create test data at run time
> via the Mediawiki API.  Jeff has a good start on this, and we are pairing
> face-to-face tomorrow to take that as far as we can in a day.  We expect
> this to be generally available fairly soon.
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58939
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