Just over a year ago, Aaron Jorbin suggested a simple idea:
If WordPress really wants to do quality automated testing, we need to rely on the people hosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. sites to test vs their stack. To do that, Core Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Team builds WordPress. needs to provide an infrastructure that both encourages and enables easy automated testing.
Today, we’re happy to announce the beginning of a beta Beta is the software development phase following alpha. A Beta phase generally begins when the software is feature complete but likely to contain a number of known or unknown bugs. Software in the beta phase will generally have many more bugs in it than completed software, speed or performance issues, and may still cause crashes or data loss. The focus of beta testing is reducing impacts to users, often incorporating usability testing. period for exactly this: a framework for any hosting company to run the WordPress PHPUnit test suite on their infrastructure and report the results back to WordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/.
At a high level, this framework is two parts:
- The phpunit-test-runner, which prepares the environment, runs the test suite, and reports the results back to WordPress.org.
- The phpunit-test-reporter, which receives the results, stores them in the database A database is an organized collection of data. Access to this data is usually provided by a "database management system" (DBMS) consisting of an integrated set of computer software that allows users to interact with one or more databases and provides access to all of the data contained in the database. Because of the close relationship between them, the term "database" is often used casually to refer to both a database and the DBMS used to manipulate it., and displays them in an accessible manner.
We’d love to see dozens of hosting companies participate in this program. Check out Getting Started for an overview on how you can set it up. Then, stop by the #hosting-community channel in WordPress.org Slack with any questions you might have.
Thanks to DreamHost and WP Engine for volunteering the engineering effort to make this project possible.
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