[QA] Pair programming Friday for fun and profit

[Anjana Ranganathan]

This session was very useful to me in terms of getting started. I had some
basic questions like: What is mediawiki and how to start to contribute in
testing, what are mediawiki extensions etc,.The usual newbie questions. As
i am interested in exploratory testing, Zeljko suggested that Visual Editor
would be a good place for me to start.He explained where the source is
kept, how bugs are filed, The test environments used and many other basic
stuff. He also shared his screen to show how to edit an article on beta.
Thanks to Chris McMahon, all these details can now be found on the QA page
( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_assurance).
Another thing that I was struggling with was the IRC. I was using
#mediawiki channel and wondering why I was the only person there. Zeljko
corrected me and said the channel was #wikimedia :). Pairing with Zeljko
has given me direction and now I at least know where to look on wiki :).
Thanks Zeljko.


On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:53 AM, S Page <spage at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> I want to pair with you!  ( ♫ pair the night away ♪... Rod Temperton for
>> Michael Jackson)  Later in the day is better.
>>
>> I would like to convert InezK's Java Selenium tests for VE to cucumber.
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Planning_and_testing#QA_tests
>
>
> I was traveling last week so I did not have the time to write reports from
> pairing sessions with S Page and Anjana Ranganathan.
>
> S and I were working on converting a Selenium test from Java to Ruby. I
> could not find the commit in Gerrit. S, did you push the commit? Can you
> write a few words about the pairing session?
>
> Anjana and I have been talking about how to get involved in testing
> MediaWiki. Unfortunately, I do not have any notes. Anjana, can you write a
> few words about the pairing session?
>
> Pairing sessions continue next Friday. Three people are interested (so
> far). I will try to pair with all of them (separately) next Friday. Let's
> see how it goes.
>
> Željko
>
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