Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Testing MediaWiki (MW) & Semantic MediaWiki (SMW)

Long time coming...


http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker#Testing



First, set up the MW testing environment:

Grab the latest MW (1.15 branch):

Somewhere in the web-directory:
svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_15/phase3/ MW1_15

Configured using all the default settings.


Next, grab some extensions:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/branches/REL1_15/extensions/


Write some tests using http://seleniumhq.org/

1) Install the Selenium-IDE (Firefox plugin)