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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. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.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

Overview of the 5.9 Test Leads’ Approach

In preparation for WordPress 5.9 and after accepting Test Lead roles, @boniu91 and I got on the same page about how we plan to support this release. What follows is an overview of our approach. Feedback is always welcome, especially since we’re early enough in the release process to ensure we’re as high impact as possible. The hope in sharing this information is to both set expectations with the overall release team and to establish an early track record that can be used to enhance documentation for this role.

Goals: 

At a high level, the goal of this role is to ensure, through testing, that the next WordPress release delights users with stability and a bug free experience.  More specifically, this can be broken down into the following goals: 

  • Coordinate and lead testing efforts for a major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” -- for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality. in order to ensure a smoother release.
  • Increase testing efforts and capacity.
  • Ensure tickets needing testing are properly handled and escalated.

Responsibilities: 

  • Continued calls for testing for the FSE outreach program.
  • A round up of how to best help test for the program/anyone who wants to test for 5.9. Previous example here
  • Help ensure any necessary testing for GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ specific items, like the Gallery BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. refactor.
  • Amplify testing efforts and opportunities, including helping onboard folks who are interested in helping. 
  • Attend and wrangle meetings (Tuesday triage + biweekly meetings, Friday testing). 
  • Monitor Trac for incoming reports.
  • Test as much as possible throughout the release cycle. 
  • E2e test development (TBD with @justinahinon leading efforts there). 

The above is already underway and will continue through the release cycle.

#5-9

FSE Program Pattern Party Summary

This post is a summary of the tenth (!) call for testing for the FSE outreach program. Per usual, I love an excuse to celebrate so here are some fun stats to continue the party:

  • There have been Italian translations for nearly every single call for testing thanks to @piermario. This consistent hard work has allowed folks from the Italian community to better stay up to date and involved in these efforts.
  • There have been numerous Japanese translations and group calls for testing through WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Japan thanks to @mimitips @ippei-sumida @atachibana (and likely others!). Similar to the Italian translations, it’s wonderful to see a pathway created here for the Japanese community to be involved.
  • @paaljoachim has responded to every single call for testing with comprehensive feedback each time! It’s wildly helpful to have someone be so consistent in exploring each test over time.
  • There have been 69 badges given to folks who have responded to the various calls for testing with an average of 1.6 replies per person (meaning most folks don’t just contribute once). 

Thank you to every single person who has come along for the first ten calls for testing. Here’s to at least ten more (Twenty more? Thirty more?). 


For this specific release, I want to offer special thanks to @piermario for the Italian translation, Yoast for focusing attention on this call for testing for their latest contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://2017.us.wordcamp.org/contributor-day/ https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/., and @sparklingrobots for bravely walking through their experience for the call for testing on a hallway hangout.

Finally, shout out to the following folks as first time contributors to a call for testing: @evarlese, @oksankaa, @nynkedeblaauw, @suascat_wp, @mikes41720, @iamyvonne, @adetolah, @josevarghese, @ankurchauhan126. Get excited – you now have a testing contributor badge on your WordPress profile!

High level Feedback

Here’s what a few folks had to say about the overall experience that can help frame the following more specific feedback. Generally speaking, most folks found problems with more of the details of the experience rather than running into any major blockers with UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it., crashing, bugs, etc that prevented them from doing what they wanted to do. Tied to this, much of the feedback centered around the desire to be able to go even further than what’s currently possible, which is reflected in the robust Feature Requests section.

While some things are still not totally intuitive to new users, I feel that GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ made more big steps ahead in just a few months. I enjoy creating content in it and some of the things I have in mind are easier to achieve.

@piermario 

It’s been fun testing out the ‘query loopLoop The Loop is PHP code used by WordPress to display posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each post to be displayed on the current page, and formats it according to how it matches specified criteria within The Loop tags. Any HTML or PHP code in the Loop will be processed on each post. https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop.blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. in FSE. No crashes or bugs. The saving worked properly. 

@mikes41720

Confirmed bugs

What follows are confirmed bugs that break expected functionality or the experience of different features. Thankfully, there were only a few of these items!

General Usability Feedback

Overall, most of the feedback for this section surrounded taking very specific actions or insights around how pieces fit together rather than a massive gap in the experience or a blocker to accomplishing a task. As a result, I’ve included more quotes than usual below to help give more context to what was shared. Of note, some are repeat items from previous tests and are labeled as such below. 

For the Query Block specifically, I’m not sure if this is expected, but I didn’t find a way to get back to the initial layout options if I wanted to change.

@evarlese

I had to open a new tab and go to Posts -> Categories and check out the names of the categories. It would be very useful with the multi select so that we can easily choose various categories from a drop down.

@paaljoachim

It makes sense that ‘Post Categories’ and ‘Post Tags’ blocks can only work within the Query Loop block and when editing a Post and each would display categories and tags associated with that post. However, when someone tries to insert those blocks on the Page outside the Query loop block would just drop the spinning icon. Probably, because as we know Page has no categoryCategory The 'category' taxonomy lets you group posts / content together that share a common bond. Categories are pre-defined and broad ranging. and outside the Query Loop, it can’t query the category. ‘Categories’ block would however work.

@suascat_wp

Query Loop – the anchor link of ‘create a new post’ leads to creating a new post or page (depending on the post type chosen in the settings), but I felt like it would break interaction with full site editing since it leads you to create a totally new post or page using the block editor. 

@mikes41720

Post ExcerptExcerpt An excerpt is the description of the blog post or page that will by default show on the blog archive page, in search results (SERPs), and on social media. With an SEO plugin, the excerpt may also be in that plugin’s metabox. – there’s a section to ‘add “read more” link text‘ (which I’m not sure what it means?) that if you click on, it doesn’t show the blinking “|” which signifies that you can add text to it (although it does work and you can add text). If you click directly right after it, it’ll then show the blinking “|” and that acts as more of a sign that you can modify and add text. It might be a bit confusing for some users from a visual cue standpoint.

@mikes41720

I’m having a hard time adding the columns within the Query Loop block unless have to do it via the help of list view.

@iamyvonne

I was playing with the theme.json and added under the styles section on the file a font size for coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress./post-title for the page, that syle is applyed at the root level so every nested core/post-title will inherit this stile and it’s ok abviously, it’s a css behavior, this is something to pay attention because now with blocks we must take into account much more kind of indentation of blocks than before where we had well-defined structures.

@overclokk

I’m still misled by the WordPress button in the top left corner of the Site Editor. I know that its function toggles a menu open/close, but being the WordPress logo such a familiar affordance, I often click on it in auto-mode expecting to come back to the dashboard…way too many clicks if I just want to “escape” to the dashboard or the live site.

@piermario 

I often feel the “double” saving step slows me down and in 99% of the cases, the options provided in “Select the changes you want to save” are something I don’t want to check off.

@piermario 

Feature Requests

Generally speaking, at a high level, most feature requests in this section come down to two things: more design tool options and more settings for blocks. As with the previous section, some are repeat items from previous tests and are labeled as such below. 

I was also initially surprised by 1 item per page as the default, and it took me a moment to find the settings again to change it.

@evarlese

When selecting ‘Display settings’ one can set the number of items per page. But actually you pick the number of items in the column if you choose a layout with multiple columns. May be easier to understand if ‘items per page’ would be renamed to ‘items per column’ or something similar.

@nynkedeblaauw 

Site Logo – has a Rounded style but no border radius control. It would be helpful to add the various new controls also to the Site Logo block. Dimensions panel etc.

@paaljoachim

I wish I had a margin and padding setting on the Columns block level.  

@piermario

#fse-outreach-experiment, #fse-outreach-program, #fse-testing-summary

Hallway Hangout: 5.9 Go/No Go, Site Editor IA, and more

This is a summary of a Hallway Hangout that was wrangled in the #fse-outreach-experiment channel as part of the FSE Outreach Program. 

As a reminder, there’s one week left to share your questions about FSE.

Attendance:

Thank you to everyone who took time out of their lives to attend. It’s always lovely to see your faces and have time to chat. @overclokk @karmatosed @get_dave @annezazu @asilver @fabiankaegy @kafleg @mburridge

Video Recording:

Topics Covered:

We mainly focused on three items: the Go/No Go recap, the Site Editing IA concepts, and the Navigation Editor & Block work.

For the Go/No Go, we chatted about items we were excited for, including talking through @karmatosed wonderful patternspiration.com where she’s started to make art-like creations. This spurred the idea of a virtual museum of art made from blocks that yours truly just might try to make a reality.

From there, we moved on to walk through the various early design explorations for the Site Editing IA. This led to a lively discussion alongside walking through both the current experience and the various prototypes. We talked about the changes in colors between the different interfaces, how much friction to add/remove for various pieces, and which might make the most sense for 5.9. @fabiankaegy had some great feedback around including more than just the headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. and footer for the Separate exploration but in a view only manner similar to what currently is available with locking things in patterns.

Finally, we covered the latest on the Navigation Editor and BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. work. @get_dave was kind enough to talk through where the project currently stands with focus shifting to the Navigation Block in order to then lay the foundation for the Navigation Editor. A key part of this work right now is “separating the navigation’s presentation from its data in order to make navigations reusable”. This will allow both for easier block theme switching while retaining menu data and for menus to be edited in a template part without creating a local copy. If folks have time, check out these two PRs to help move this important work forward: Save Navigation Block data to a wp_navigation post type and Try using a template part in the navigation block.

#fse-hallway-hangout, #fse-outreach-program

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Test Team Chat Summary: 12 October 2021

The meeting started 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/. here.

@hellofromtonya summarised last week in tests:

  • Team cleared large number of tickets that needed help.
  •  5.9 e2e strategy session was held and the strategy was set.

5.9 e2e strategy session was a big step forward for WP CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., as:

  • We are getting started with bringing e2e tests to Core.
  • We now have clear boundaries of where e2e tests will live in Core and GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/.
  • We have a process/workflow from idea => PR ready => code review => commit.

@hellofromtonya mentioned, that the next step is to do the same for PHPUnit integration tests. Both of the above will become a 5.9 Test Roadmap

Open Floor

@justinahinon shared his concerns about shipping Playwright to Gutenberg now as it’ll need lots of work. He thinks that it’s better to make this experiment in the Core before.

@hellofromtonya shared her thought that Puppeteer and Playwright might exist in the suite together

@costdev agreed

@hellofromtonya wrote the Bigger Scope which is:

  • Teaching contributors
  • Creating tool that will convert from Puppeteer to Playwright
  • Changing to linters

@costdev reminded, that we need to agree on standard for writing e2e with Playwright

@hellofromtonya mentioned that she’s working on the Webfonts APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways.. The API will handle the theme.jsonJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. webfonts. There are some tickets that need unit/integration tests:

  • https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/52252
  • https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47642
  • https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49985

If anyone’s interested in writing tests please leave comment either on Slack or in ticket itself.

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