On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Roan Kattouw
<roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We're initially setting up Selenium for use
by the usability
initiative, with the idea of extending it to the rest of the software
when we have time/resources for that. You're right that this should
probably have been communicated earlier, but until a few weeks ago the
status was "Ryan's patiently waiting for the Selenium servers to
arrive and get set up".
Okay, but it seems like several employees (including you) already knew
this, and several volunteers (including me) did not. This implies
that there's some communications channel that employees are reading,
but not volunteers. Is it some public place that we just don't visit?
If so, where? Or do you have internal face-to-face meetings, private
mailing lists, something like that? Assuming Wikimedia intends to
maintain a bazaar development model, it's quite important that
interested volunteers can be on the same page as employees.
I made an announcement about interaction testing automation back in
October and received some feedback from some of you.
One of the suggestions was to start small and expand the scope later. I
thought it was a brilliant and a practical idea. The system is designed
to offload manual testing for basic interaction regression tests and put
the focus for manual testing on to new features and things visual
confirmations are needed. We have one system up for OS X and another
system is in the process of being built. We are still experimenting how
the whole system works with less manual intervention. Integrating code
review process, extension validation, and central reporting and
publishing, and etc will be nice enhancements to add on as we prove this
automation system work in a small work group and mature the system with
the process as a whole.
The intention is to expand this automation to wider developer community
and hopefully creating test cases will be part of the development
process. :-)
Cheers,
- Naoko
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