[QA] top articles across languages for testing?

Tue May 19 20:25:15 UTC 2015

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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Brian Gerstle <bgerstle at wikimedia.org>
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> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Brian Gerstle <bgerstle at wikimedia.org>
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>> The subject hints at a question that's been nagging me for a while, and
>> now that I'm going to be hacking on testing in Lyon I wanted to ask:
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>> Do we have a list of articles we usually run tests against?
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>> If not, do we have any processes for curating such a list?  Would anyone
>> be interested in a brainstorming session at Lyon to discuss this further?
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>> Basically, as a developer, I would love to have more confidence that some
>> code I wrote doesn't break on our most popular articles.  Or, if we can get
>> more sophisticated, that *certain properties of my code hold true for
>> certain kinds of generated pages*.*
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>> Please respond with your thoughts and whether you think I should create a
>> phab task for the hackathon about this.  In either case, ping me anytime or
>> grab me at Lyon to discuss further!
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>> Regards,
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>> Brian
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>> * Yes, I'm talking about using property-based testing generators to
>> create random, shrinkable MW pages that we can run tests on. Not sure if
>> it's practical, but could be an interesting experiment.
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