Using something like Vagrant probably.
Purpose: to be able to spin up (multiple, simultaneous as needed) testing instances to run against our quick set of known good/stable tests (see bug 51491).
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
Whiteboard: rmqa-2013
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T54424 Run subset of browser tests on isolated CI instances per commit submitted in mediawiki/core | |||
| Declined | None | T54425 Run subset of browser tests on isolated CI instances per commit submitted to extensions that run on WMF production | |||
| Declined | greg | T53492 Create hermetic test environment runnable on labs infra |
This should also be useful for developers who want a throw away instance on labs to use for development/testing.
You mean like https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Single_Node_MediaWiki ? Or do you mean to include the actual spinup/test/spindown script in this bug?
(In reply to comment #2)
You mean like https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Single_Node_MediaWiki
?
Yeah, like that, only automated.
Or do you mean to include the actual spinup/test/spindown script in this bug?
Right.
This enables bug 52424 ("Run smoke tests on hermetic instances per patchset submitted in mediawiki/core")