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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:
- #62391 Category name “preview” breaks admin css
- #62407 PHP Notice: Undefined offset in WordPress core when using template registered in a plugin via register_block_template() in WordPress 6.7
- #62401 WP_Query add extra JOINs after calling get_posts() with category__in in query arguments
- #62403 Unable to add italics to a page/post’s title
- #62400 RSS Block showing date in UTC when pubDate in feed is not
- #62417 Excerpts don’t include content from list-item blocks.
- #62435 Preload script modules and enqueue script modules in wrong order
- #62449 Bypassable Sanitization in the restfulAPI, which lead to the
- #62450 TinyMCE editor doesn’t load properly when initializing on Visual Tab (Firefox) [again]
- #62451 Menu editing broken on mobile
- #62453 Cropping of images in WP 6.7 is broken
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:
- #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
- #34353 redirect_canonical() – Undefined indexes ‘host’ and ‘scheme’
- #62331 Imaged Edit GD Control Flow
- #41155 Theme Details dialog hides admin sidebar sub-menu navigation
- #59329 Firefox gets “ReferenceError: Â is not defined” in unminified moxie.js
- #62440 “Most Used” Category Tabs Not Synced with “All Categories” Tab in Classic Editor
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 6.8 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
6.8 Related issues need testing
The following 6.8 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #60074 Add New Media File > The ”dismiss button ”not showing any response when uploading the unsupported (.jfif) file
- #51019 convert_smilies() fails on large tags
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.7, Rollins, is out!
- The Playground team added browser support for cURL, making it easier for WordPress plugin developers to showcase their plugins directly in Playground and use them in
runPHPblueprint steps. - Experimental inline comments : In Gutenberg 19.6, inline commenting is now available as an experiment. You can follow the ongoing development of this feature in the tracking issue or review the previous work in the original pull request. Testing and feedback are needed.
- Introducing the WordPress.org Experiments plugin: A new plugin called WordPress.org Experiments allows contributors to test experimental features before they’re integrated into WordPress Core.
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.
2024 Schedule:
- Tuesday, 19 November 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
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