Selenium/Getting Started/Create a simple test

This tutorial will assume that you are running tests from your machine, targeting MediaWiki-Vagrant virtual machine.

MediaWiki Core
Let's write a new simple test for MediaWiki core. For example,  is one of the rare pages that does not have   link. Let's write a test to check that.

Code
Following code is in Gerrit (345378).

A new test file should be created:

A new page object file should be created:

Output
To run all tests, run this from MediaWiki core folder:

To run just the new test file, run this from MediaWiki core folder, in two separate terminal tabs or windows:

Typical patch
The above example is minimal amount of code for a Selenium test in an extension. The minimal amount of code is just one spec file and just one page object file:


 * , example P8626
 * , example P8627

Typical patch will have a few more files:


 * , example P8623
 * , example P8624
 * , example P8206
 * , example P8625