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:
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:
- #62204 »Save draft« button partially hidden in Firefox in 6.7 Beta 2
- #62199 Media attachment date filter dropdown text is not showing correctly
- #62209 When updating languages, wordpress via ftpext tries to chdir to json files and fails
- #62211 defect (bug): wp_site_admin_email_change_notification triggers wp_mail with an empty to address creating downstream wp_mail_failed
- #62212 If you update a plugin from the details modal, it no longer updates the main page
- #62208 Font size issue occur in responsive for author filter list
- #62207 Designing issue occur in patterns filter list
- #62200 Problem with this writing: var:preset|$feature|$slug
- #62222 Jason saving error twenty twenty four theme
- #62223 “Error in moving the item to Trash” when using Cloudflare Speed Brain (Missing/Unreachable directories)
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:
- #46577 Improve tests related to file permissions for privacy export requests
- #61381 Bulk update plugins no longer working when 1 Plugin failed to update
- #41155 Theme Details dialog hides admin sidebar sub-menu navigation
- #61591 Multiple bundled themes: block editor style is added incorrectly
- #61398 Missing src attribute on <audio> tag prevents m4a audio files playing in safari.
- #62016 The .json files with theme translations are loaded only if they are present in the plugins path
- #61055 wp_update_plugins irregular transient handling.
- #61114 PHP 8+ Fatal Error in WP_Upgrader due to TypeError in array_keys() Call
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 6.7 tickets need PHPUnit tests built to accompany their respective patches:
- #44958   character in title generates a permalink (and slug) with space
- #57379 A Way to Disable Export Theme
- #58366 Shortcode Support Regained but Content Filters are messing with Shortcode HTML
6.7 Related issues need testing
The following 6.7 tickets need testing those are having patches:
- #61381 Bulk update plugins no longer working when 1 Plugin failed to updat
- #41155 Theme Details dialog hides admin sidebar sub-menu navigation
- #61591 Multiple bundled themes: block editor style is added incorrectly
- #61398 Missing src attribute on <audio> tag prevents m4a audio files playing in safari.
- #62016 The .json files with theme translations are loaded only if they are present in the plugins path
- #61055 wp_update_plugins irregular transient handling.
- #61114 PHP 8+ Fatal Error in WP_Upgrader due to TypeError in array_keys() Call
Profile Badge Awards 🎉
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- WordPress 6.7 introduces a new
@wordpress/a11yscript module and a new API to pass script module data from the server to the client. Check full post. - Fields API team seeking new leadership.
- Proposal: Make unit test tickets easier to distinguish
- What’s new in Gutenberg 19.4?
- Core Editor Improvement: New features and flows for Font Management
- WordPress 6.7 Beta 3 has been released.
- We have concluded our Test team rep elections, and will announce them soon!
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
🚨 There will be regular #core-test meetings held for 2024.
2024 Schedule:
- Tuesday, 15 october 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-triage>in #core-test. - Tuesday, 22 October 2024 at 16:30 GMT+5:30:
<test-chat>in #core-test.
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