Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Testing Initiative 2015
Summary[edit]
In reviewing the Q2 2014-15 Team Health Checks, the Team Practices Group noticed a theme of small interferences to promoting a healthy culture of testing.
The Team Practices Group collaborated with Release Engineering to address these issues. Together, on July 27, 2015, they hosted a "Testing: Where Does It Hurt?" meeting open to all of WMF Engineering.
"Testing: Where Does It Hurt?"[edit]
Video of July 27, 2015 meeting
Actionable Items from "Testing: Where Does It Hurt?" meeting[edit]
- Phab workboard: Testing Initiative 2015
- Retrospective 2016-03-18:
- [Meta] The small size (Dan and Grace) wasn't sufficient for this type of work
- [Greg+Dan] Call out things we changed on the wiki page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Testing_Initiative_2015
- JavaScript framework
- Train 2.0
- Onboarding discussion ended with these outcomes:
- Grace & Anna L to get a few more items (Dan to outline what they are) on an onboarding checklist
- Greg to delay creating an introductory "how we do things" type vide/presentation until after the change to Train 2.0 (and Differential?)
- [Meta] lots of good things came out of it (the usefully targeted/scoped tasks)
- [Meta] Timing had a lot to do with some of the lack of momentum.
- [Meta] Timeboxing would have been good, eg 3 months (a quarter).
- [Meta] Scope wasn't clear at the beginning as it was more of a exploratory exercise turning into a project in and of itself