Because of a surge of interest in recent times, we have started a mail list for QA activities connected with WMF projects. If this interests you, feel free to sign up at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa. The list is completely open, so also feel free to mention it to anyone else for whom this sort of discussion might be of interest.

Below is a sample of the sort of things we will discuss on the QA list:

OPW: Congratulations Rachel Thomas (rachel99) on being selected to work on browser test automation with us as part of the Gnome FOSS Outreach Program for Women. Rachel has been a volunteer for some time now and despite starting from scratch with gerrit and Ruby/Cucumber/PageObject has already made valuable contributions to the browser tests. We're really looking forward to working with Rachel over the summer.

Amsterdam Hackathon: While Željko and Chris have met any number of times before, this was our first meeting outside of the USA. Together we cleaned up many failing builds at https://wmf.ci.cloudbees.com/; we implemented some tests for the Universal Language Selector; and we gave a presentation on the current state of the browser tests to a number of interested (and interesting!) people.

In the course of making the builds green, we:

* updated the Guided Tour test to reflect the latest behavior of that feature * repaired a bogus error message from parallel_cucumber causing false build failure reports * adjusted the target test environments among beta labs enwiki and commons, test2wiki, and production to yield optimum coverage with a minimum of red builds.

We also extended some test coverage: * checked in a test for Appearances and Datetime Preferences * checked in an interim fix for sidebar expand/collapse tests while we explore setting cookies in IE * wrote a new test for Universal Language Selector based on some work from Runa Bhattacharjee of the Language team, and planned for more ULS tests very soon. (Fixing https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45958will be helpful)

In the very near future we'll be working with tests for VisualEditor as well, which continues to have some interesting bugs: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48166. Bug 48166 and a few others were identified as part of a community test exercise at the Telerik Test Summit peer confernence in Austin TX not long ago.

We are also looking forward to using YuviPanda's new github-gerrit integration.

Again, we extend an invitation to anyone interested in testing, test automation, and QA activities in general to join the mail list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa

-Chris McMahon QA Lead for WMF