[teampractices] "Testing 101" docs from Etsy

Antoine Musso hashar+wmf at free.fr
Wed Oct 29 15:20:56 UTC 2014


Le 29/10/2014 12:07, Quim Gil a écrit :
>     <https://github.com/etsy/Testing101/blob/master/Testing_Best_Practices.md>
> 
> 
> Slightly related only, but very timely. Google Code-in is approaching
> (the program where pre-university students complete hundreds of small
> tasks), and we are looking for clonable tasks, aka types of tasks that
> can be repeated in big quantities.
> 
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2014
> 
> 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.

-- 
Antoine "hashar" Musso




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