Demoing the Wikiation Extension Testing Environment

Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting the extension testing environment to people of the Wikipedia Usability Initiative (UI). It was a pleasure because many of the requirements for the UI can be met by our environment.


What we discussed and/or demoed:

• the motives for the Wikiation Extension Testing Environment
  
• testing on different operating systems and (LAMP) configurations
  
• the need for the creation and duplication of test environments
• the need for testing environments with different configurations for instance with and without flagged revisions
  
• the installation of extensions and its problems
  
• the ability to script tests and installations in bash or in python
• why integrating Selenium makes sense (remote control and grid)
  
• we demoed the installation of an en.wikipedia lookalike and talked about the need for both internal and external testing
• the need for sharing the test cases as widely as possible
  

What I liked in this conversation was the priviledge of having a look into the "UI kitchen", I got the impression that the Wikipedia Usability Initiative is progressing nicely.
Thanks,
       GerardM