[QA] Pair programming Friday for fun and profit

Mon Nov 18 22:44:11 UTC 2013

Hi Jeff,

Thank you for your immediate response.

I did go through the links ,you attached.
But still its confusing Where & How to start exploratory testing.

If you can give me a quick introduction , I can start right off.
We are on West coast of US. We are on Pacific standard time.
If I can set up some time with you Or Chris,it will be helpful.Just to show some screen shots & what toook for & how to start finding and reporting bugs?

Thanks,
Shobana

Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:07:31 -0800
From: jhall at wikimedia.org
To: qa at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [QA] Pair programming Friday for fun and profit

    Hi Shobana -

    This page is a good place to start:
    https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/How_to_contribute

    That provides an introduction to Cucumber and associated
    technologies that are being used by the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
    to automate test cases at a "black box" level.

    Also, as Anjana mentioned, you might want to join the #wikimedia-qa
    IRC channel - quite a few of us who do QA work for the WMF hang out
    there, so we can try to answer your questions as you work through
    some of your first tests!

    Cheers,

    Jeff

    On 11/18/13 10:12 AM, shobanalakshmi
      kannan wrote:

      Hi

        I can pair up with any one of you, who can explain ,how to do
        back box testing on Wiki.

        I don't know where to start?

        If someone can direct me , that would be awesome.

        Thanks,

        Shobana

          Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:48:06 -0500

          From: anjana1 at gmail.com

          To: qa at lists.wikimedia.org

          Subject: Re: [QA] Pair programming Friday for fun and profit

          This session was very useful to me in terms of
            getting started. I had some basic questions like: What is
            mediawiki and how to start to contribute in testing, what
            are mediawiki extensions etc,.The usual newbie questions. As
            i am interested in exploratory testing, Zeljko suggested
            that Visual Editor would be a good place for me to start.He
            explained where the source is kept, how bugs are filed, The
            test environments used and many other basic stuff. He also
            shared his screen to show how to edit an article on beta.
            Thanks to Chris McMahon, all these details can now be found
            on the QA page ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_assurance).

            Another thing that I was struggling with was the IRC. I was
            using #mediawiki channel and wondering why I was the only
            person there. Zeljko corrected me and said the channel was
            #wikimedia :). Pairing with Zeljko has given me direction
            and now I at least know where to look on wiki :). Thanks
            Zeljko.

            On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:20
              AM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>
              wrote:

                    On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:53 AM,
                      S Page <spage at wikimedia.org>
                      wrote:

                          I want to pair with you!  ( ♫ pair the
                            night away ♪... Rod Temperton for Michael
                            Jackson)  Later in the day is better.

                          I would like to convert InezK's Java Selenium
                          tests for VE to cucumber.  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Planning_and_testing#QA_tests

                    I was traveling last week so I did not have the time
                    to write reports from pairing sessions with S Page
                    and Anjana Ranganathan.

                    S and I were working on converting a Selenium
                      test from Java to Ruby. I could not find the
                      commit in Gerrit. S, did you push the commit? Can
                      you write a few words about the pairing session?

                    Anjana and I have been talking about how to get
                      involved in testing MediaWiki. Unfortunately, I do
                      not have any notes. Anjana, can you write a few
                      words about the pairing session?

                    Pairing sessions continue next Friday. Three
                      people are interested (so far). I will try to pair
                      with all of them (separately) next Friday. Let's
                      see how it goes.

                        Željko

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