[QA] Pair programming Friday for fun and profit

[Jeff Hall]

Hi Shobana -

This page is a good place to start: 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/How_to_contribute

That provides an introduction to Cucumber and associated technologies 
that are being used by the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) to automate test 
cases at a "black box" level.

Also, as Anjana mentioned, you might want to join the /#wikimedia-qa/ 
IRC channel - quite a few of us who do QA work for the WMF hang out 
there, so we can try to answer your questions as you work through some 
of your first tests!

Cheers,

Jeff



On 11/18/13 10:12 AM, shobanalakshmi kannan wrote:
> Hi
>
> I can pair up with any one of you, who can explain ,how to do back box 
> testing on Wiki.
> I don't know where to start?
> If someone can direct me , that would be awesome.
>
> Thanks,
> Shobana
>
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> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:48:06 -0500
> From: anjana1 at gmail.com
> To: qa at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [QA] Pair programming Friday for fun and profit
>
> 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 <mailto:zfilipin at wikimedia.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:53 AM, S Page <spage at wikimedia.org
>     <mailto: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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