[QA] [teampractices] "Testing 101" docs from Etsy

[Chris McMahon]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf at free.fr> wrote:

> Le 29/10/2014 12:07, Quim Gil a écrit :
>
> > I was wondering whether we could use Google Code-in to increase our unit
> > testing coverage. I guess there are certain components and areas easier
> > to to cover than others, and I guess there is DIY documentation that
> > could be used here, but I have no idea of how feasible and useful this
> > would be.
>
> Given the bad shape of Mediawiki core tests suite, I don't think Google
> Code-in is a good fit.  I am rather suspicious toward freshmen
> attempting to refactor our code and tests.


As Trish Khoo of Google just remarked, "The first mistake many development
teams seem to make, IME, is assuming testing is supposed to be easy."

"...increase unit testing coverage" in our case almost certainly means
"rewrite big chunks of Mediawiki Core from scratch".
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