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.
🙋♀️ 🙋 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):
- #53801 Block-based widgets screen does action wp_footer after each widget
- #52294: TT1 editor styles broken in RTL
- #16206: (test patch 16206.8.patch) Comment text not marked as required
- #54243: Inlined block styles for external assets (images/fonts) and relative URLs not working as expected (patch is upstream in Gutenberg)
PHPUnit tests help needed
Who? Any QA or PHP developer contributors who can (or is interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.
The following tickets need PHPUnit tests build:
- #47642: Order by comment count – posts list tables
- #49985: REST API: Using
_embedand_fieldsquery parameters in the same query - #52252: PHP Notice when
monthnumquery var is set without theyearQV
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:
- Currently no tickets in the queue are ready for testing
Calls for Testing
- Call for Testing: FSE Program: Test Patterns
Reading
- Strategy for 5.9 end-to-end (e2e) tests
- FSE Program Block Theme Switching Summary
- Hallway Hangout: Pattern Party Testing Walkthrough
- Juliette and I hosted a live working session to fix and test infinite loop (#52241), incorrect data type, and PHP 8.1. Watch replay here.
Meetings This Week
- 8 Oct 2021: Test Team Chat starting at 13:00 UTC
Props to @boniu91 for peer review.