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Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update
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:
- #63501 wp_iframe sends output before send_headers hook causing PHP headers sent notice
- #63490 Non secure sudomain site url in site activation email
- #63507 Loopback tests should run on admin-ajax again
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:
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 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- It’s WCEU week! 🎊 Check out the official schedule. @oglekler and @boniu91 will be leading the Test Table, while @sirlouen and @puja are supporting as our remote table leads. If you’re attending #WCEU in person, be sure to stop by the Test Table and feel free to invite fellow attendees to join in! For more details, read ➡️ Get Involved: Core Test Team at WCEU 2025 Contributor Day
- The next major releaseMajor Release A set of releases or versions having the same major version number may be collectively referred to as “X.Y” — for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, and all other versions in the 5.2. (five dot two dot) branch of that software. Major Releases often are the introduction of new major features and functionality. things are in progress and can be found here.
- The 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/ 20.9.0 is now available in our plugin directory. - Building the Testing Use-Case
- Announcing the Formation of the WordPress AI Team
- WordPress Campus Connect Expands
- Automattic: Open Horizons Scholarship
- Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about the new AI team
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2025.
2025 Schedule:
- Wednesday, 04 June 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test. - Wednesday, 11 June 2025 at 21:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test.
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