User:Rachel99/proposal1

Browser Test Automation for VisualEditor
Name: Rachel Thomas

Email: rachelthomas_99@yahoo.com

IRC handle: rachel99

Location: Boston, MA (UTC -4:00 )

Introduction
As the major issues in Visual Editor have been fixed, the Visual Editor has recently been deployed to 14 non-English Wikipedias so that users can become familiar with the editor. It will eventually become the default editor for Wikipedia. The timing is good for a battery of tests of be constructed for the VisualEditor feature of MediaWiki, as the editor is stable enough to have automated tests written and run against it.

VisualEditor is a great target for tests because it matches the desired criteria exactly:  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing#Rationale. VE should work in many browsers, is javascript-heavy; requires navigation to test properly; is likely to have regression issues, and is a critically important project.