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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Brian Gerstle <bgerstle(a)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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