[QA] @test2 questions

[Rachel Thomas]

Ok, well that explains it!   It seems to be working now the way you
explained it above.
Thanks!

--Rachel

*Gnome FOSS Outreach Program for Women Intern
Browser Test Automation, Wikimedia Foundation*


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Rachel Thomas <rachelqa99 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I have put in the correct tag that you suggested in the .feature file,  @
>> test2.wikipedia.org. on the first line, but it still doesn't try to run
>> on test2, when I run the bundle exec cucumber
>> features/visualeditor_references.feature from command line.  What happens
>> is that it runs on the default en.wikipedia rather than test2.
>>
>
> I think I know what the problem is - I have never explained to you how
> Cucumber tags work, and how our test framework uses them. :)
>
> jobs.md[1] file documents how to run just the files tagged @
> test2.wikipedia.org. Something like this:
>
> bundle exec cucumber --tags @test2.wikipedia.org
>
> That means that cucumber will run only the features/scenarios tagged @
> test2.wikipedia.org. It does not mean that it will run them at
> test2.wikipedia.org!
>
> To run a feature/scenario on a specific site, you have to set
> MEDIAWIKI_URL environment variable:
>
> linux/mac:
>
> export MEDIAWIKI_URL=http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>
> windows:
>
> set MEDIAWIKI_URL=http://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>
> There are some problems with http and test2 at the moment. If the tests
> fail, use https instead of http.
>
> In short:
>
> - Cucumber tags allow us to run a subset of tests,
> - MEDIAWIKI_URL determines where the tests run.
>
> If you want to read more about tags, there is some documentation[2] at
> Cucumber wiki.
>
> I know this is confusing. There are a lot of moving parts. If you have any
> questions, let me know.
>
> Željko
> --
> 1: https://github.com/wikimedia/qa-browsertests/blob/master/docs/jobs.md
> 2: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Tags
>
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