[QA] run browser tests against production Wikipedia?

[Chris McMahon]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Rachel Thomas <rachelqa99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From Zeljko's gerrit code, it looks like he already removed the production
> tests.   I was going to say that it could be still valuable to run them.
> There may be a time when test2 is not updated correctly with the right
> versions of features that we want to test, or is down for maintenance, and
> it would be a good idea to have a backup test running on production
> server.    Also, those tests do not seem to be ones that would take a lot
> of time or horsepower to run, so it wouldn't be much overhead to run those.
>

Yes, I think we should consciously choose the tests to run against
production, the four noted above were more accidents of history than chosen
deliberately.


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> --Rachel
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> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Open question:  is it worthwhile to run read-only browser tests against
>>> the production wiki, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org?
>>>
>>
>> I did some cleanup on how tests run. Feel free to comment here or in
>> Gerrit:
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>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85098/
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>> Željko
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