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Week in Test: December 15, 2025

Hello and welcome to another edition of Week in Test, the place where contributors of any skill level can find opportunities to contribute to WordPress through testing. You can find the Test Team in #core-test.

Table of Contents

Calls for Testing 📣

Calls for Testing can originate from any team, from themes to mobile apps to feature plugins. The following posts highlight features and releases that need special attention:

Test Handbook 📘

Merging of Test Handbook in GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/

For the last few weeks, a good number of test contributors embarked on the journey of reviewing our new Test Handbook based on GitHub. The Process has been concluded successfully with the merging.

  • We want to inform that the Test Handbook is officially synced. There might be a couple of bugs and things that are not looking good pending to be fixed.
  • Feel free to give it a check here, and if you find any bugs, go to the GitHub repository and report them.
    • You can send a PR with the fix, or simply send the issue, and we will check it

Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠

Bi-Weekly update: Test Team Update

Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions. Did you know that contributions to the Test Team are also a fantastic way to level up your WordPress knowledge and skills? Dive in to contribute, and gain coveted props 😎 for a coming release.

1. WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Testing

a. 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 (4) 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:

b. Bug Reproduction

It is necessary to confirm if the bug is happening under multiple conditions and environments, using the bug reproduction report in order to validate the issue.

The following tickets (205) have been reviewed and milestoned, and need testers to check the instructions and manually test if the issue is reproducible, the provide a bug reproduction report:

c. Handbook Review

Here are the current activities being discussed in the Test Handbook:

  1. We need to review https://github.com/WordPress/test-handbook/pull/98
  • Test Team Discussions
    • Time to Review/Update the Get Set Up for Testing Page.
    • Time to Comment Back/Update the Test Team Reps Page.
    • Update on Test Handbook: New pages for Feature & Enhancement Testing (#90), E2E Testing (#91), and Patch Testing Scrubs (#92) are available; contributors can update content via GitHub issues.

2. 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/ Testing

👋 Want to contribute to WordPress/Gutenberg? If you have a bug or an idea, read the contributing guidelines before opening an issue. If you’re ready to tackle some open issues, we’ve collected some good first issues for you.

a. Gutenberg Bug Reproduction Testing

The following tickets (1) have been filed reporting a known bug and needs testers to manually test, then provide feedback through a bug reproduction report that the issue can be reproduced.

b. Gutenberg Patch Testing

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:

Profile Badge Awards 🎉

Congratulations to the recipients of the Test Contributor Badge 🎉

– Kindly find the Contribution Guidelines here

Read/Watch/Listen 🔗

Upcoming Meetings 🗓

🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held in 2025.

2025 Schedule:

Interested in hosting a <test-scrub>? Test Team needs you! Check out Leading Bug Scrubs for details, or inquire in #core-test for more info.

Props to @nikunj8866 for helping review this article and offering feedback

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