[QA] top articles across languages for testing?

[Brian Gerstle]

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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Brian Gerstle <bgerstle at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> The subject hints at a question that's been nagging me for a while, and
> now that I'm going to be hacking on testing in Lyon I wanted to ask:
>
> Do we have a list of articles we usually run tests against?
>
> If not, do we have any processes for curating such a list?  Would anyone
> be interested in a brainstorming session at Lyon to discuss this further?
>
> Basically, as a developer, I would love to have more confidence that some
> code I wrote doesn't break on our most popular articles.  Or, if we can get
> more sophisticated, that *certain properties of my code hold true for
> certain kinds of generated pages*.*
>
> Please respond with your thoughts and whether you think I should create a
> phab task for the hackathon about this.  In either case, ping me anytime or
> grab me at Lyon to discuss further!
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian
>
> * Yes, I'm talking about using property-based testing generators to create
> random, shrinkable MW pages that we can run tests on. Not sure if it's
> practical, but could be an interesting experiment.
>
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