Notables

This week, the team began focusing on defining 2022 Q1 goals.

Test Ticket Queue

(change: N) represents changes from last week = this week – last week

Current totals (change: since 1 Nov 2021):

• Needs reproduce issue: 1524 (change: +36)
• Patches needing testing: 202 (change: -13)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 123 (change: -3)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 139 (change: 0)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 13 (change: +9)

New/changes In last 7 days:

• Needs reproduce issue: 3 (change: +4)
• Patches needing testing: 6 (change: +5)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 7 (change: +6)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Closed in last 7 days:

• Could not reproduce issue: 4 (change: +1)
• Patches needing testing: 2 (change: +2)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 20 (change: +20)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Highlights

• Call for Testing: WordPress for Android 19.0
• Call for Testing: WordPress iOS 19.0
• Hallway Hangout: Let’s talk about WordPress 6.0

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Notables

This week, the team will focus on 5.9 features and enhancements ahead of the 9 Nov Feature Freeze.

Test Ticket Queue

(change: N) represents changes from last week = this week – last week

Current totals:

• Needs reproduce issue: 1488 (change: +11)
• Patches needing testing: 215 (change: +2)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 126 (change: -1)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 139 (change: +5)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 9 (change: +1)

New/changes In last 7 days:

• Needs reproduce issue: 9 (change: +3)
• Patches needing testing: 16 (change: +6)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 2 (change: -2)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 10 (change: +1)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 1 (change: -1)

Closed in last 7 days:

• Could not reproduce issue: 2 (change: -4)
• Patches needing testing: 0 (change: 0)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 2 (change: 0)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Highlights

• Week in Test => curated guide to point testers were they could contribute this week; also includes posts for awareness and learnings
• Overview of the 5.9 Test Leads’ Approach
• FSE Program CfT (Call for Testing) Summary: Pattern Party
• Hallway Hangout: 5.9 Go/No Go, Site Editor IA, and 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

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Notables

Last week, the team:

• Set the 5.9 end-to-end (e2e) test strategy
• Set an idea to commit workflow process for e2e tests
• Tested or triaged the highest number (in a single week) of priority tickets (i.e. identified in the weekly curated list)

Test Ticket Queue

(change: N) represents changes from last week = this week – last week

Current totals:

• Needs reproduce issue: 1477 (change: -14)
• Patches needing testing: 213 (change: -1)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 127 (change: 0)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 134 (change: +4)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 8 (change: 0)

New/changes In last 7 days:

• Needs reproduce issue: 8 (change: +3)
• Patches needing testing: 9 (change: +3)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 2 (change: -2)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 7 (change: -1)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 2 (change: +2)

Closed in last 7 days:

• Could not reproduce issue: 3 (change: -7)
• Patches needing testing: 0 (change: 0)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 0 (change: -2)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Highlights

• Week in Test => curated guide to point testers were they could contribute this week; also includes posts for awareness and learnings
• Call for Feedback (CoF) Summary: FSE Program’s block theme switching
• Live working sessions:
  • Hallway Hangout held for a causal walkthrough of the current call for testing patterns
  • Fixing and testing a filesystem infinite 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. and 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. 8.1 (YouTube | Trac)

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Test Ticket Queue

(change: N) represents changes from last week = this week – last week

Current totals:

• Needs reproduce issue: 1491 (change: +1)
• Patches needing testing: 214 (change: +3)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 127 (change: 0)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 130 (change: -1)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 8 (change: +1)

New/changes In last 7 days:

• Needs reproduce issue: 5 (change: 0)
• Patches needing testing: 6 (change: +1)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 4 (change: -2)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 8 (change: +1)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Closed in last 7 days:

• Could not reproduce issue: 10 (change: -3)
• Patches needing testing: 0 (change: 0)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 2 (change: -1)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Highlights

• Week in Test => curated guide to point testers were they could contribute this week; also includes posts for awareness and learnings
• Core e2e working strategy session rescheduled for 6 Oct (i.e. for 5.9 testing roadmap)
• Call for Testing for testing patterns
• Proposal to migrate e2e to Playwright => easier to build stable tests

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Test Ticket Queue

(change: N) represents changes from last week = this week – last week

Current totals:

• Needs reproduce issue: 1490 (change: 0)
• Patches needing testing: 211 (change: -1)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 127 (change: +1)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 131 (change: 0)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 7 (change: 0)

New/changes In last 7 days:

• Needs reproduce issue: 5 (change: -5)
• Patches needing testing: 5 (change: +1)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 6 (change: +6)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 7 (change: +4)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Closed in last 7 days:

• Could not reproduce issue: 13 (change: +11)
• Patches needing testing: 0 (change: -2)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 3 (change: +1)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Highlights

• Week in Test => curated guide to point testers were they could contribute this week; also includes posts for awareness and learnings
• Modernize to Latest PHPUnit project is now complete 🎉
  • Dev Note published
  • Huge kudos to cross-team, cross-component, and cross-(open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL.)project effort to solve this hard hard problem and each challenge! 👏 Showed the best of our collaborative spirit 🎉
• Core e2e working strategy session happening this week (i.e. for 5.9 testing roadmap)

Help needed:

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Test Ticket Queue

(change: N) represents changes from last week = this week – last week

Current totals:

• Needs reproduce issue: 1490 (change: +2)
• Patches needing testing: 212 (change: 0)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 126 (change: 0)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 131 (change: -1)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 7 (change: 0)

New/changes In last 7 days:

• Needs reproduce issue: 10 (change: -3)
• Patches needing testing: 4 (change: 0)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: -1)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 3 (change: -3)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Closed in last 7 days:

• Could not reproduce issue: 2 (change: 0)
• Patches needing testing: 2 (change: 0)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: 0)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 2 (change: 0)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: 0)

Highlights

• Team chat summary from 14 Sep => 9 active testers participating including 3 newcomers
• Week in Test => curated guide to point testers were they could contribute this week; also includes posts for awareness and learnings
• Hallway Hangouts:
  • 17 Sep: Summary of discussion on adoption pathways for full site editing
• PHPUnit tests:
  • 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. 8.1 fixes continue to be committed which includes adding and improving the PHPUnit tests (TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. 53363 and 53635)
  • Backports to help extenders will happen today
  • Dev note to help extenders set up their test suites should be published this week
• Strategy work resumed for e2e testing roadmap for 5.9

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Test Ticket Queue

(change: N) represents changes from last week = this week – last week

Current totals:

• Needs reproduce issue: 1488 (change: +6)
• Patches needing testing: 212 (change: none)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 126 (change: none)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 132 (change: -3)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 7 (change: none)

New/changes In last 7 days:

• Needs reproduce issue: 13 (change: -2)
• Patches needing testing: 4 (change: -2)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 1 (change: -5)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 6 (change: -1)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: -1)

Closed in last 7 days:

• Could not reproduce issue: 2 (change: +2)
• Patches needing testing: 2 (change: +2)
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 0 (change: none)
  • Have unit tests & need review: 2 (change: -4)
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0 (change: none)

Highlights

• Hallway Hangouts:
  • 10 Sep: Discussion on Full Site Editing Issues/PRs/Designs
  • Upcoming on 16 Sep: on adoption pathways for full site editing
• Call for feedback: Help with the future of Block Theme Switching
• PHPUnit tests:
  • 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. 8.1 fixes continue to be committed which includes adding and improving the PHPUnit tests (TracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. 53363 and 53635)
  • Have consensus for further improving test bootstrap messaging for extenders (will be committed this week) (See PR 1587)
  • Backports to help extenders should happen this week
  • Then dev note to help extenders set up their test suites hopefully will be published this week

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Test Ticket Queue

Current totals:

• Needs reproduce issue: 1482
• Patches needing testing: 212
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 126
  • Have unit tests & need review: 135
• Tagged as needs testing info: 7

New/changes In last 7 days:

• Needs reproduce issue: 15
• Patches needing testing: 6
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 6
  • Have unit tests & need review: 7
• Tagged as needs testing info: 1

Closed in last 7 days:

• Could not reproduce issue: 0
• Patches needing testing: 0
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 0
  • Have unit tests & need review: 6
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0

Highlights

• Same highlights as last week

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Test Ticket Queue

Current totals:

• Needs reproduce issue: 1484
• Patches needing testing: 212
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 124
  • Have unit tests & need review: 137
• Tagged as needs testing info: 7

New/changes In last 7 days:

• Needs reproduce issue: 19
• Patches needing testing: 8
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 3
  • Have unit tests & need review: 7
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0

Closed in last 7 days:

• Could not reproduce issue: 2
• Patches needing testing: 0
• Unit tests for patches:
  • Need unit tests: 0
  • Have unit tests & need review: 4
• Tagged as needs testing info: 0

Highlights

• Call for volunteers: Cross-team testing documentation project
• Modernize to Latest PHPUnit project:
  • Tests are running on 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. 8.1 (not passing yet as there’s a lot of work to do)
  • Tests run with matching version of PHPUnit
  • Handbook updated
  • Consensus on backports to help with point releases and help extenders
  • Consensus and completed making Composer invisible for contributors testing locally with the npm/Docker workflow

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This is the first Test Team update in years. To reestablish the weekly update for our team, this week’s report is an overview. Future reports will provide quantitative stats for tracking and measurement.

Rebuilding the test team

• Active meetings:
  • Since May 2021, team meets each Tuesday: alternates weeks for triage and team chats
  • Since 5.6, manual testing session each Friday
• Team Reps: 2 Team Reps nominated and selected
• Helping contributors: pilot a “Week in Test”
  • Scope: raise awareness, promote learning, and help contributors discover where to contribute
  • Team agreed to pilot this weekly P2P2 P2 or O2 is the term people use to refer to the Make WordPress blog. It can be found at https://make.wordpress.org/.
  • When? this week will edition 1

Accomplishments

• Awarded 5.8 test badges:
  • FSE Outreach Program:
    • 53 contributors given Test Contributor badge (see p2)
    • 4 contributors given Test Team badge
  • 16 contributors given Test Contributor and Test Team badges (Meta 5827)
• Team Reps: 2 Team Reps nominated and selected
• Projects:
  • e2e (Trac 53737): team agreed to process and pilot; owner assigned
  • Modernization of 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. tests: consensus achieved; 70% of patches committed
  • Improving tester experience in handbooks: owner assigned

Work in Progress (WIP)

• Active Calls for Feedback:
  • Theme design theme.json: survey open (closes this Friday)
• Active Call for Testing (CfT):
  • WordPress for iOS version 17.9 beta
  • WordPress for Android 17.9-rc1

Stats:

Coming soon.

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