>>>> "BV" == Brion Vibber
<brion(a)pobox.com> writes:
BV> But we should all try to be more rigorous about testing... and
BV> we should have some decent, useable, maintainable, and
BV> maintained regression tests (and perhaps unit tests). I don't
BV> know if that sounds like fun for anyone to work on...
No, it sounds fun for nobody to work on.
However, I've started a manual test script on the meta-wiki:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_test_script
It should be relatively easy to get up to speed, especially if people
who know the software well add to it. Hint hint.
Automated tests are great, but they're difficult for Web
applications. The library code in MediaWiki is difficult to isolate
and do unit tests for. A manual test script is a step towards some
rigor in quality assurance.
~ESP
--
Evan Prodromou <evan(a)wikitravel.org>
Wikitravel -
http://www.wikitravel.org/
The free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide