[QA] Forget developers in test, we need testers in development

Antoine Musso hashar+wmf at free.fr
Thu Jan 9 11:43:24 UTC 2014


Le 02/01/14 17:37, Nikolas Everett wrote:
> 
> Elasticsearch doesn't use its test as documentation at all.  They
> instead force developers who submit pull requests to always write the
> feature, the tests, and the documentation all in the same pull request. 
> I like this method because it keeps you honest.  If the tests can build
> some or all of the documentation then that is better.

I like that workflow a lot.  For MediaWiki core unfortunately, most of
the doc is on some wikis and we barely have any unit tests :-(

-- 
Antoine "hashar" Musso




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