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Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update: 23 December 2024
Here’s a roundup of active tickets that are ready for testing contributions.
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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:
- #62726 Footnotes
- #62727 Duplicating a pattern and changing to non-synced but images on copies of pattern are still synced
- #62729 stream_preview_image() should stream with right mime type, if filter _load_image_to_edit_path change file with different mime type
- #62712 “Edit image” in Media Modal not work for PSD/SVG ( mime_type image/* )
- #62717 POST request to pages returns 200 or 404
- #62719 Error message when uploading pictures into a blog post
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:
- #12056 target=”_blank” being stripped from Profile Bio and Category Description
- #62326 Add title and description to post format archive block templates
- #14060 Misleading “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
- #21022 Use bcrypt for password hashing; updating old hashes
PHPUnit Tests 🛟
Who? Any QA or 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. https://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php developer contributors who can (or are interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.
Why? Automated tests improve the software development feedback 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 for quality and backward compatibility.
The following 6.8 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
6.7 Related issues need testing
The following 6.7 tickets need testing those are having patches:
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Upcoming Meetings 🗓
- Upcoming meetings are canceled due to the Christmas and New Year holidays:
December 25, 2024: <test-triage>January 1, 2025: <test-chat>
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