[QA] QA Digest, Vol 4, Issue 23

[Chris McMahon]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Renuka Alurkar <renukaalurkar at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Zeljko, Thank you for approving my email.
> Chris, Quilm Thank you for sending me other helpful links. I read about
> manual features testing, browser testing using cucumber, and about saw the
> video about the new tool article-feedback. I find both browser testing and
> article feedback interesting. Well, I do not have any experience with
> cucumber, but I would love to learn it through browser testing on
> wikimedia. At the same time, I would like to test the article feedback tool
> too.
> I do not exactly remember how I came to know about how one could
> contribute as a tester to wikipedia, but there is a possibility that I read
> about it at
> http://thesocialtester.co.uk/volunteering-a-good-way-to-learn-testing/ !!
> Well, let me know how and when I can start!!!!!
>

Hi Renuka,

Article Feedback is an interesting feature, but unfortunately you are a bit
late.  AFT is no longer under active development and is only in use in some
limited circumstances.

Since you've read up a lot about what we do, let me suggest a few areas in
which to concentrate:

Our new search engine called "CirrusSearch" is available for testing right
now on https://www.mediawiki.org and  http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/.


Some general notes about testing it are available at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CirrusSearch, and some previous mentions
here on the QA list are at
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2013-August/000354.html and
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2013-August/000358.html.  The
automated tests we have may or may not be passing right now.  They may not
be too easy to read, but you can get an idea of what sort of thing we're
testing for with them
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-CirrusSearch/tree/master/tests/browser/features
.

We'd like to hear what you think about the test we have and the testing we
should have.

The UniversalLanguageSelector (ULS) is a tool that allows users to
manipulate the languages in which wikis appear.  It is considered stable
right now, but in the near future it will need to interact with our new
VisualEditor.  ULS is available in two ways:  in the environment at
http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ it is represented as a "cog" icon
(looks like a wheel) in the left-side "Languages" panel.  In the
environment at http://test2.wikipedia.org/ it is available as a link in the
upper-right corner of each wiki page, and also as a small typewriter icon
in every input box such as Search.  The automated tests we have for ULS are
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-UniversalLanguageSelector/tree/master/tests/browser/features

VisualEditor is our new WYSIWYG editor under development.  It is available
on every wiki, including in production on the English Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/.  (If you edit in production, do it on your user
page or your user talk page, don't pollute real articles).  As Amir noted
earlier, some attention to non-Latin scripts in VE would be useful, as
would an investigation of how cursor movements and such are working.  Bugs
in VE are very important right now.  For now at least, the automated tests
we have for VE are at
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-VisualEditor/tree/master/modules/ve-mw/test/browser/features

Finally, we are just beginning a big new feature called "Flow" that will be
a new messaging system for the wikis.  It is early enough in development
that Flow is not implemented anywhere yet, but you can read about it at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow and you can watch for when it becomes
available here:  https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53061

-Chris
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