[wp-edu] Automated Testing of Updates

[Jeff VanDrimmelen]

That is kind of what we were thinking as well.  If we decide to go that route we will certainly share with others. 

Thanks!!

~Jeff 


On Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 8:23 AM Thursday, March28, Ken Newquist wrote:

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> On Mar 27, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Jeff VanDrimmelen wrote:
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> > 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. 
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> > 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. 
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> 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.
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