Selenium/Ruby/Workshops/Search features

WHAT: Writing Wikipedia search feature descriptions in plain English for our automated testing process. Let's feed the Test backlog with descriptions like this:

Feature: Search

Scenario: Search suggestions Given I am at random page When I search for: main Then a list of suggested pages should appear And Main Page should be the first result

WHEN: We will start with a discussion and slide demo to be streamed on a public channel on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 17h UTC and we will be helping volunteers during the rest of the week. This is an ongoing activity: you can arrive / leave at any time.

WHERE: IRC channel. After joining on IRC, say Hello browser testers! and we will welcome you with instructions and a simple task. chrismcmahon, zeljkof and qgil will do their best covering timezones. You can also use the Discussion page to ask any questions.

WHO: Anybody interested, including you! The only requirement is basic level of plain English in order to describe the features to be tested automatically. It is that simple.

See also How to contribute.

This is a weekly QA activity organized by the MediaWiki Group Browser testing. Join us!

Focus
Here is a list of solved and open bugs that we want to test automatically:


 * Search for simple text misses some results
 * Incorrect UTF-8 processing
 * Search ignores user settings

There are more examples in Bugzilla.

Demo time!
We will have a 30min live demo on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 17h UTC. We will show how to create scenarios for Search tests. After that we will start writing scenarios.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation engineering team is working on several Search improvements.
 * Search is pretty important! We need good tests for Search.
 * Both desktop and mobile browsers need Search tests.