Reading/Multimedia/Retrospectives/2019-04-11

2019-04-11

Previous Action Items


 * Matthias to dig up some UploadWizard tickets and see if they are worth prioritizing (Ramsey)


 * Max to email list to see what we can do about


 * getting a sense of accomplishment (via resolution of tasks probably)


 * Figuring out how to verify tasks on prod without clogging board)


 * Use multimedia-team@lists.wikimedia.org for discussion of ad-hoc ticket needs/emergencies

What are we doing that we should keep doing?


 * Having time this week to focus on testing work was valuable, even if we don't have the system in place to do much with Selenium, etc; let's continue setting aside time for test automation and find other ways to do it productively


 * For QA, putting whether something was tested on Beta or Test Commons in the phab ticket - very helpful, thanks! +1


 * Reaching out to other teams as we notice issues/blockers -- helps raise visibility of some long standing problems that could be addressed


 * Ad hoc bugs are getting exterminated quickly and fairly thoroughly despite the craziness involved sometimes


 * Collaborating and communicating across the team in general


 * Usability testing :)


 * Design walk-through w/Pam was useful and quick way to ensure things were correct +1

What are we doing that we should stop doing?


 * Assuming we can write tests in a week?  Maybe reasonably should have had longer time line


 * I'm in full-on panic mode atm, which I'd like to get out of :p ... or maybe not panic, but v frustratedselenium brings that out in people :(+1 on frustration about this


 * ^ Don't panic! Where's your towel?


 * haha :D





What aren't we doing that we should we start doing?


 * Find non-Selenium ways to do automated testing work (I still think more JS unit tests could help)


 * a regular weekly or twice a month day when we try to improve tests?


 * Celebrating more? Amanda (not present) mentioned that she was surprised at the team tone when she returned, considering recent successes +1


 * We don't prematurely celebrate :) [still many things to do]


 * the team tone? you mean we're all bummed out cos we haven't released yet?



Topics voted up (as needed)



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Action Items


 * HANA: Talk through how to get selenium testing into our current workflow+1 to dev chat on this


 * Eric: Make tickets about unit testing and how to get that working


 * Could lead to norm about making unit tests when writing new code