On Jun 23, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > On 06/22/2012 10:53 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcma...@wikimedia.org>wrote: >> >>> On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed >>> it as a Weekend Testing Americas session, but it would work equally well at >>> Wikimania, and it fits our goal of bringing in more community testing >>> nicely: >>> >> >> Speaking of QA, I'd love to participate in a test-writing-a-thon. Currently >> I have no idea how to write tests for my code. It would be awesome if I >> could learn that at Wikimania. >> >> —Andrew > > This might indeed be a good training session/topic for the pre-Wikimania > hackathon. We might be able to repurpose Chad Horohoe's testing > training from the fall of 2011 - a lecture on how to write tests, > walking attendees through the documentation and teaching them how to run > tests. Notes and audio are available: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon/Sunday#Chad.27s_test_training > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Git_notes_-_NOLA_Hackathon_2011.oga > > "I'll find a simple function we still need a test for, and use it as > an example. I'll briefly touch on setting up PHPUnit (with the caveat > that *sometimes* it's harder than it should be, so ask if you need extra > help). Then dive into how to write the test." > > You might also like skimming this category and re-filing/moving/creating > pages as relevant: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Tutorials >
I could also (co-)host that or another session regarding front-end unit testing. -- Krinkle _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
