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Don't use the preferences page to update preferences for each test. Only do that in the test dedicated to preferences
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Should cut the test time down a bit

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Can you explain a little bit about how this would work? I'm not familiar with login redirects. We now have the need to set several preferences in different tests, this would be useful for 2 we currently have in review/

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Personally I would use the API, it's faster and probably more stable.

Gilles renamed this task from Change browser tests for skip preference to use login redirects to Don't use the preferences page to update preferences for each test. Only do that in the test dedicated to preferences.Feb 24 2015, 7:42 PM
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Change 192607 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gilles):
Set the preferences via the API when not testing the preferences page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/192607

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Change 192607 merged by jenkins-bot:
Set the preferences via the API when not testing the preferences page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/192607