Week in Test – 1 Nov 2021

Welcome to this week’s edition of Week in Test! This post is a curated list of where you can get involved (i.e. where testers of all skill levels and expertise are needed), learning opportunities, and some reading to keep you informed.

This week focuses on helping with 5.9 new features and enhancements. Remember, feature freeze is 9 Nov.

🙋‍♀️ 🙋 Contributing: Tester Help Needed

Looking for ways to contribute? The following tickets and patches need contributors.

Manual testing help needed

Who? All contributors (not just developers) who can set up a local testing environment, apply patches, and test per the testing instructions.

The following tickets need testers to manual test and provide feedback (test report):

PHPUnit tests help needed

Who? Any QA or PHPPHP PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php. developer contributors who can (or is interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.

The following tickets need PHPUnit tests build:

  • #15145: Add a wp_list_users() template tag
  • #54331: Add a hook in wp_http_validate_url to control which ports are allowed for remote requests

Reproducing reported issue help needed:

Who? Any contributor.

The following new tickets need testers to attempt reproducing the reported issue and then providing a test report with the results:

  • #54320: There are no more thumbnails for updated PDFs
  • #54430: Twenty Twenty-One: Menu item focus background only works on Chrome (ignored on Safari)
  • #54354: open_basedir warnings on classic post edit screens with TinyMCE plugins present

Reading / Watching

Meetings This Week

  • 2 Nov 2021: Test Triage session starting at 13:00 UTC
  • 5 Nov 2021: Test Scrub starting at 13:15 UTC

Props to @boniu91 for peer review.

#build-test-tools, #core-test