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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:
- #63871 Media library does not respect the filter’s already selected when coming back to the media library page
- #63882 Plugins: Preflight activation to avoid WSOD when plugin code uses syntax incompatible with PHP runtime
- #63895 Accessibility: Alt Text Metadata is not imported but Description is
- #63896 is_login() will trigger on non-login pages
- #63898 Add support for lazy-loaded derived state props
- #63899 Undefined array key 1 in WP_Interactivity_API::merge_style_property()
- #63891 Processing directives function in interactivity API class may cause fatal error
- #63900 Improve PHPDoc for wp_parse_id_list() in functions.php
- #63902 wp_get_post_autosave() uses a non-limited SQL query
- #63903 Vulnerable dependency: @babel/runtime 7.25.7 in WordPress packages
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:
- #56290 Twenty Twelve: Button blocks inside widget areas don’t apply theme preset colours
- #60628 Issues with avif image imagecreatefromavif not working. Resizing not possible.
- #31992 Unicode Email Addresses
- #57170 Fix invalid menu-item-parent
- #29798 unified theme and plugin uploader
- #49661 mails, Howdy, wp_mail() and filters spreading
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:
- #63882 Plugins: Preflight activation to avoid WSOD when plugin code uses syntax incompatible with PHP runtime
- #63890 Add multiple order conditions to WP_Term_Query
- #57469 retrieve_widgets(): fatal error when a sidebar’s widgets set to null (array is expected)
- #55492 `Dismiss Errors` button alignment is not centered in Media Library.
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Read/Watch/Listen 🔗
- Portland Welcomes WordCamp US 2025: A Community Gathering
- If you know someone who is perfect for the role for Test Team RepTeam Rep A Team Rep is a person who represents the Make WordPress team to the rest of the project, make sure issues are raised and addressed as needed, and coordinates cross-team efforts.; nominate them or yourself if you’ve been contributing regularly. To know more about roles and responsibilities check this post.
- Announcing the WordPress 6.9 Release Squad
- Roadmap to 6.9
- What’s new in Gutenberg 21.5? (27 August)
Upcoming Meetings 🗓
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