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.
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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:
- Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 3
- Help test WordPress 6.5 Beta 1
- Early Opportunities to Test WordPress 6.5
- Bug scrub schedule for WordPress 6.5
Weekly Testing Roundup 🤠
Weekly update: Test Team Update: 4 March 2024
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 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:
- #60650 sanitize_locale_name() should reject non-strings
- #60654 Install several formats of the same font one by one is not possible
- #60657 wp_schedule_event problem
- #60659 get_subdirectory_reserved_name bypass on mutlisite
- #60666 Unwanted section appears as a sidebar in ‘Create gallery’ section
- #60671 If you hook some blocks with Block Hooks API, slashes are stripped from template part block attributes
- #60664 Twenty Nineteen: Avatar block size is different in the editor and front
- #60677 Docs: Add missing @global tag and adjust tag position
- #60680 Site’s broken
- #60681 Elements: Fix application of element class name when attributes are filtered
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:
- #42670 Symlinked plugin makes plugin_basename function return wrong basename
- #60472 Improve the `plugin_missing_dependencies` error message
- #60578 When plugin upload fails, add a link to return to plugin installer page
- #60236 Customizer’s Widget’s component should only be loaded when not using a Block Theme
- #52723 Admin options.php default value to NULL for option_value may lead to MySQL Integrity constraint violation error, potential other bugs
- #59930 Problems pulling relevant MySQL Docker container
- #58164 Background overlay on theme page has layout issues
- #59712 `WP_Ugrader` doesn’t check source and destination variable types, is missing a string.
- #55974 Bundled theme: Add support for border options
- #60398 WordPress 6.4.3 MacOS/Linux Compressed Zip plugin archives “Incompatible Archive” on upload
- #60672 Improve menu toggle accessible name in admin menus
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 6.5 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- No tickets have been available from the past 1 week
6.5 Related issues need testing
The following 6.5 tickets need testing those have patches:
- #60472 Improve the `plugin_missing_dependencies` error message
- #59930 Problems pulling relevant MySQL Docker container
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- Core Test Team at WCAsia 2024
- WordPress 6.5 Beta 3
- What’s new in Gutenberg 17.8? (28 February)
- Updates to Block Hooks in 6.5
- Summary of Hallway Hangout on overlapping problems in the Site Editor
- Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about WordPress Playground
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.
March 2024 Schedule:
- Tuesday, 5 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test. - Tuesday, 12 March 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test.
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.