Welcome back to Week in Test, where contributors of any skill level can find a handy list of links and opportunities to test WordPress. Join the Test Team in #core-test for questions and thoughtful discussion.
Did you know that contributions with the Test Team are also a fantastic way to level up your WordPress knowledge and skill? Dive in to contribute, and gain coveted props 😎 for a coming release.
Reproduction Testing 🔁
Who? Any contributor.
Why? It is helpful to show an issue exists for other users in order to move a ticket forward for patching.
The following new tickets are awaiting review, and need testers to attempt to reproduce the reported issue (aka “repro”), and then provide a reproduction test report with the results:
- #56367: Twenty Seventeen: List block padding in Editor does not match the correct frontend style.
- #56363: “Generate password” button on Add New User screen does not regenerate password on first click.
Patch Testing 🩹
Who? All contributors (not just developers) who can set up a local testing environment.
Why? It is necessary to apply proposed patches and test per the testing instructions in order to validate that a patch fixes the issue.
The following tickets have been reviewed and a patch provided, and need testers to apply the patch and manually test, then provide feedback through a patch test report:
- #52584: Metaboxes fail to save after heartbeat/login timeout and subseqent reauthentication. This ticket is planned for 6.1.
- #54546: Fatal error during update from 5.8.2 to 5.9. Relates to Requests 2.0, slated for 6.1 release.
- #42619: Check
open_basedirsetting before parsing directories during autoupdate. - #56194: Twenty Twenty:
text-transformsetting on H6 heading doesn’t match between Editor and frontend.
PHPUnit Tests 🛟
Who? Any QA or PHP developer contributors who can (or are interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.
Why? Automated tests improve the software development feedback loop for quality and backward compatibility.
The following tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #56350: Allow exact text searches in REST API.
- #56340: PHP 8.1:
E_DEPRECATEDfromPasswordHash::gensalt_blowfish. - #56389: Make
wp_required_field_indicatorandwp_required_field_messagefilterable. Includes test suggestions to get started. - #56349: Update WordPress core functions to support multiple MIME types (such as WebP). Dev code review is still in progress, so suggest unit tests be submitted to current PR’s branch, rather than through a new PR.
Read/Watch 📖
- Test Team Reps Call for Nominations — Nominate someone, even yourself!
- Testing and Feedback for the Fluid Typography Feature
- A New WordPress.org Homepage and Download Page 🎉
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
- 19 August 2022 at 13:15 UTC :
<test-scrub>in #core-test. - 23 August 2022 at 16:00 UTC :
<test-triage>in #core-test . - 26 August 2022 at 13:15 UTC :
<test-scrub>in #core-test.
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