<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">That is kind of what we were thinking as well. If we decide to go that route we will certainly share with others. <div><br></div><div>Thanks!!</div><div><br></div><div>~Jeff</div></div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 8:23 AM Thursday, March28, Ken Newquist wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div><br></div><div>On Mar 27, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Jeff VanDrimmelen wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>I am wondering if anyone has any good protocol/plugins/etc. for testing updates to plugins/themes across large multisite installations. Right now I am doing testing by hand, but it get's tedious and I'm sure I am going to miss some things. </div><div><br></div><div>Ideally I'd love to create some tests that run and report back if things are working or not working. But any automation I can do at all would be great. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We're working on a suite of Selenium scripts for Drupal to do exactly this, and plan on doing that for WordPress as well. We don't have a timeline for this, but I'm hoping to have it done by the end of the summer. We've recently moved to managing our WordPress installations with git; now that updates are a lot easier the next big time saving step is automating testing.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Ken Newquist</div><div>Director, Web Applications Development</div><div>Lafayette College</div><div>p: 610.330.5759</div><div>e: <a href="mailto:newquisk@lafayette.edu">newquisk@lafayette.edu</a></div><div>web: <a href="http://sites.lafayette.edu/newquisk">http://sites.lafayette.edu/newquisk</a></div><div>podcast: <a href="http://sites.lafayette.edu/coffeebreak">http://sites.lafayette.edu/coffeebreak</a></div><div>cal: <a href="https://webmail.lafayette.edu/home/newquisk@lafayette.edu?fmt=freebusy">https://webmail.lafayette.edu/home/newquisk@lafayette.edu?fmt=freebusy</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>wp-edu mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu">http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu</a></div></div></div></span>
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