Currently we use the Beta cluster as a way of logging in to the application for testing. Unfortunately, there have been a lot of problems with the Beta cluster (see T420833 – Beta cluster is being crawled to death by bot traffic coming from residential proxies), and as a result it's often impossible to test how the tool works for logged-in users.

We already have a solution for testing the tool anonymously (T427891), but we now need a way forward to be able to test that logged-in users can use the tool as expected too.

One direction we're currently exploring is setting up our own test wiki with Extension:OAuth configured as an OAuth2 provider, so that testing the login flow doesn't depend on the Beta cluster's stability.

We've earlier set up our own test wiki (wikispeech-test.wmcloud.org), and to solve the Beta-Meta issue, I installed Extension:OAuth as an OAuth2 provider, and pointed both local dev and wikispeech-sdc.toolforge.org at it. Login now works against our own wiki instead of Beta Commons.