Meetings/2012-12-13

29 November

Wikimedia Open Tech Chats

17 January

Video from tech chat

What	Weekly open meetings of the Wikimedia technology community to discuss technical issues, architectural challenges and process improvements.
How	We're using a combination of Google Hangout on Air (an open YouTube stream from the 6th floor of the WMF office) + potential additional Hangout guest speakers + IRC for text-based communication. There's no attendance limit. You don't need Hangout to participate -- if you can play YouTube videos and join IRC, you're fine.
When	Thursday, December 13, 2012, 20:30 UTC (12:30 PST), 60–90 minutes
Where	Physical space: 6th floor SF office, "Collab" space IRC: #wikimedia-dev connect YouTube stream: [1]
Food	It's a brown bag - bring your own :)
Moderator	Rob Lanphier

Topics

• QA update: browser test automation overview
• i18n dos and don'ts by Amir Aharoni
• Multilingual user testing for improving the Translate extension by Pau Giner (Google Docs presentation) (slides)
• lightning talk by adam hyde

Proposed outline for browser testing walkthrough

Background, History and Overview

• Why Ruby?
  • Tech factors
  • Human factors
• Why not Python?
• Why not PHP?
• Why Cloudbees hosted service instead of WMF/labs systems?

Architecture

Three tiered architecture implements accepted design patterns. Each tier has unique appeal to certain communities we would like to attract to the project. Examples to be shown in real working code.

• ATDD/Cucumber
• Page Object design pattern implemented in standard page_object library (Ruby gem).
• Tying Cucumber Scenarios to Page Objects with test steps