Node.js Testing WG Meeting 2016-Jan-15

[Trott]

Will take place at:

• UTC: Friday, January 15, 2016 at 6:00:00 PM
• Pacific Time (San Francisco): Friday, January 15, 2016 at 10:00:00 AM
• Eastern Time (Pittsburgh): Friday, January 15, 2016 at 1:00:00 PM
• Central European Time (Madrid): Friday, January 15, 2016 at 7:00:00 PM
• Western European Time (Lisbon): Friday, January 15, 2016 at 6:00:00 PM

Hangout link: https://plus.google.com/events/ctbjov1nq2pntfhvje4e7mpktd4

More to come....

[Trott]

Agenda-ish:

• Draft docs pull request: initial draft of docs #2
• Broken tests
  • Revert commits that cause failing tests on Windows CI node#4679
• Flaky tests
  • test-tick-processor Investigate flaky test-tick-processor node#4427
  • test-debug-no-context test-debug-no-context segfaulting node#4343
  • For the following tests: Run a stress test to confirm? Is there an easy way to search Jenkins for recent failures?
    • sequential/test-vm-syntax-error-stderr
    • parallel/test-tls-ticket-cluster

Stuff to think about:

• Unit tests (which might enable easier code coverage metrics)
• Guidelines around tests: For example, when should a file containing multiple tests be split into multiple files?
• Any current opportunities for collaboration with the Build WG?
• Porting the Python test harness to JavaScript
• Smoke testing/CITGM: What remains to be done? Should we check to see where things are with the SmokeTest WG? Does that WG officially exist? Should it be subsumed here?
• Review of existing tests: Standardize some things? Lint rules? Document how things like pummel do/don't work?
• Modularize common.js: Make it less of a junk drawer
• Benchmarking: Do we have anything automated? How do we get there? Would this overlap with the Benchmark WG or would it be distinct from their work? Does that WG still effectively exist?
• pummel and debugger seem to have a lot of not-working stuff and aren't part of CI. How can we fix that?

Administratia:

• I can't create labels and do other things in this repo that perhaps everyone in the WG should be able to do. Who can change that?

[Trott]

It's time! https://plus.google.com/events/ctbjov1nq2pntfhvje4e7mpktd4

[orangemocha]

@Trott I think we need a different link. After you start the hangout, you can copy & paste the URL of the hangout window.

[Trott]

Oh, right, ugh! Beginner mistakes. Here, try this: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYfNs71kiy_WrS0M_uLyD4dCQo6tPEApNQEiY944mPAcrr8y4A