[QA] Pair programming Friday for fun and profit

[Željko Filipin]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> And the winner of the pairing lottery is ... (drum roll) ... Jeffrey Hall!
> :)


tldr[0]: Jeff and I paired today. We did had some minor technical
difficulties (loud neighbours and internet hiccups) but I think it was fun.
I will leave it to him to confirm or deny. :)

Longer version:

I have shared my screen and showed him our two Jenkins instances[1][2]. We
picked a failed Jenkins job[3] and tried to reproduce it both locally and
at Sauce Labs[4]. While debugging the problem I was talking about all the
tools I was using. He was familiar with a lot of them but I think it was
useful for him to see how we use them. I also gave him a short introduction
into how test code is structured.

The test was failing in several ways on my machine and on Sauce Labs, so in
one hour that we had, we were not able to consistently reproduce the error.
If we had more time we would find a way to reproduce the problem and fix it.

If that sounds fun, the next "Pair programming Friday for fun and profit"
will be next Friday, October 25, 1:30-2:30pm UTC/GMT.

The rules stay the same:

- First-come, first-served.
- REPLY NOW because there is only one pairing session left!!!!111oneoneone
- Requirements: a computer and internet connection that can handle video
conference (Google Hangout, Skype...).
- Day and/or time is not good for you? Let me know, we will figure
something out.

Željko
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0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn't_read
1: https://wmf.ci.cloudbees.com/
2: https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/
3:
https://wmf.ci.cloudbees.com/view/r-ve/job/VisualEditor-en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org-linux-chrome/lastCompletedBuild/testReport/(root)/VisualEditor%20cursor/Cursor_over_link_shows_link_icons/
4: https://saucelabs.com
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