By Allon Moritz on 2024-05-17 19:35 in Automated Testing Team

Date: May 17, 2024
Time: 18:00 UTC
Total time of meeting: 1 hour 40 minutes

Attendees:

Heiko Lübbe, Nicola Galgano, Allon Moritz

Report

The new team met the first time in an online meeting.

• Allon greets everybody, thanks them and highlights the importance of the automated system tests. It is a sustainable way to ensure a stable core.
• Nicola is introducing himself.
• Heiko is introducing himself.
• Allon presents the strategy to slowly but steady increase the amount of system tests with an expected small contribution per month. the overall target is to have every view tested in it's simple form and then over time add some special configurations and test if the views behave as intended.
  
  Nicla and Heiko propose to make the environments stable like Mac or Windows or with a SMTP server. So we adapt the strategy a bit.
  
  - First step is fix different environments
  - Second is test views and modules in a simple way
  - Third step dive into specific configurations
• A decision was made that we will create the system tests on the minimum development branch, not included are security branches. So currently it is 4.4-dev.

 The immediate next work is as follows:

• In parallel we are creating automated Cypress based testing for developer manual examples, see issue 43440, Heiko is working on it.
• One of the problems with nested tables has been fixed with PR 43456 but we think there are more places, Nicola is working on it, Allon helps with the JS code.