Francesca Marano 11:57 am on January 22, 2021
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Test Scrub for WordPress 5.7 and office hours

As part of the 5.7 release, we’ll be hosting a focused test scrub for tickets listed in this report, later today, Friday Janury 22, 2021 13:30 UTC in the #core channel on SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

The report will show tickets that

Have needs-testing label

Don’t have

  • needs-testing-info
  • needs-refresh
  • needs-unit-tests
  •  2nd-opinion
  • dev-feedback

labels.

The ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. is ready to be considered for commit  but needs testing/QA.

Testing Environment

  1. Open the Terminal app
  2. Install homebrew by pasting /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" – You might be asked if you want to install the Xcode Command Line Tools, confirm.
  3. Install GitGit Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. Most modern plugin and theme development is being done with this version control system. https://git-scm.com/. by typing brew install Git
  4. Install Docker by typing brew cask install Docker.
    • If you get an error you can try brew install cask Docker or install Docker Desktop 
  5. Install Node by typing brew install Node
  6. Open the Docker app in your computer and ignore the welcome screen that tells you to create a container
  7. Clone the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository with the wordpress-development environment by typing git clone and the URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org you get when you click on the green button on the top of the GitHub repo that says Code. Pick the HTTPSHTTPS HTTPS is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. This is especially helpful for protecting sensitive data like banking information. URL.
  8. Go to the directory where you cloned the repo (you can use cd wordpress-develop to locate it)
  9. Now type these 4 commands
    1. npm install
    2. npm run build:dev
    3. npm run env:start
    4. npm run env:install
  10. You should be able to access the development version of WordPress at http://localhost:8889/. You can access it with username admin and password password

How to apply a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing.

TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. ticket, for example 35449

npm run grunt patch:35449

How to fetch and then checkout a PR, for example, PR 828

git fetch upstream pull/828/head:pr-828
git checkout pr-828

or for PR:

npm run grunt patch:https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/828

Check the handbook for more ways to test patches.

Do you have a ticket you want to bring up for testing?

Fantastic!

In order to allow testers to manually test the patch, you should include the following information:

  • What are the steps to reproduce the problem?
  • What are the steps to test?
  • Are there any testing dependencies such as a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party or script?
  • What is the expected behavior after applying the patch?

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