Welcome to a new edition of Week in Test! This post features a curated list of where and how testers can get involved, regardless of skill level. You can find the Test Team in #core-test.
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.
Ready to pitch in? 🙋♀️ 🙋 Okay, let’s get started!
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:
- #55671: A TikTok embed that contains
</3in the description appears to cause a broken anchor tag. This needs testing with additional variations, such as embeds from other sources. - #55684: High CPU when publishing a post under PHP 8.1.
- #55698: Reported that “x” in post content is converted to a double-quote. Refer to the reporter’s notes to attempt to reproduce.
- #39827: Fix redirect when permalink does not contain trailing slash. This is an old ticket that needs verification that it is still an issue.
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:
- #55721: Use Flexbox to improve Add Plugins screen card alignment.
- #55448: Prevent empty
WP_Widget_Blockcontainer when widget has no output (use 55448.diff). - #55290: Apply image edits to all subsizes.
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:
- #55606: Add
wp_after_tag_searchfilter. Needs additional feedback for proposed unit test. - #54541: Add actions to template loading.
- #34353: Address missing URI scheme for
redirect_canonical().
Read/Watch 📖
- FSE Program Testing Call #14: Rallying Recipe Reviewers
- Help Wanted: Test WordPress 6.0 (And yes, 6.0 is scheduled to drop next week!)
Meetings This Week 🗓
- Proposal for new
<test-triage>/<test-chat>time: Join the discussion. - 20 May 2022:
<test-scrub>starting at 13:15 UTC.
Props to @hellofromtonya for peer review of this post.