Thanks for reviewing that, Chris! Chris McMahon did most of the hard work there, porting everything from qa/browsertests into core. I was glad to help on the Vagrant side of things, though: I have a mediawiki-vagrant commit standing by that will do all the heavy heavy installation lifting that you mentioned. :) I'll double check that it's backwards compatible and send it up for review shortly.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Chris Steipp <cste...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I just +2'ed a change to add a few basic selenium tests to core [1]. I > think it will benefit us all to have a set of automated tests to > quickly make sure mediawiki is working correctly. From a security > perspective, this also takes a step towards more efficient security > testing, which I'm also a fan of (if you've tried blindly scanning > mediawiki, you know what I'm talking about..). > > I think the QA group is working on vagrant-izing these, but if you > have ruby >1.9.3 and firefox, then setting up and running these tests > on your local dev system is 4-6 commands, > > $ cd tests/browser > $ gem update --system > $ gem install bundler > $ bundle install > > You can either set your environment variables yourself, or edit > environment_variables and run `source environment_variables` to set > them. Then it's just > > $ bundle exec cucumber features/ > > to run the tests. They currently complete in 36 seconds on my laptop. > > I'd like to see more tests added and backported to REL1_23 to make > sure we have an ongoing suite to check releases against for next few > years that we support that LTS. If anyone is interested in both > mediawiki core and browser tests, I'm sure the QA team would like to > get you involved. > > Big thanks to hashar, Chris McMahon, and Dan Duvall for indulging me > and getting this done. I'll let them jump in with all the details I've > missed. > > > [1] - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133507/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Dan Duvall Automation Engineer Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
