Current Situation:
Our current test setup is not very well isolated from our build environment and is almost entirely setup through shell scripts while the actual tests and related setup hooks are in the WDIO/Javascript environment. Making the test setup, including starting of any needed Docker services, happen within Javascript in the same environment the tests are ran would empower us to write better tests, as well as to better control the test environment for each suite or spec file run. Ultimately this setup would give us the pieces we need to potentially run our test suite against arbitrary Wikibase installations regardless of our build setup as we do currently with the Example and Upgrade test suites.

Goal:

Acceptance Criteria:

• Specifically analyse what it would take to make the example and upgrade test suites not need their own shell script setup (or minimise it).

The reasons they require their own shell scripts vs also just using test_suite.sh is the information to guide this spike.

• Also dependent on the features of WDIO (8) to see how we can include the shell scripts functionality in js / ts code.