Testing and QA

About our Quality Assurance (QA) testing process, plus feedback and questions on new features.

QA testing latest: We aim to start the 4.0 QA cycle end of November / early December 2021.

For discussions about our Quality Assurance (QA) testing process, plus feedback and questions on new features.

You can try things out on our Moodle QA testing site then post in this forum about any issues you come across. Please report any obvious bugs in the Moodle Tracker.

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Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies
Previous / Next buttons in 3.4 Locked	Ed Beck 17 Oct 2017	Ed Beck 17 Oct 2017	0
Behat "current page administration" not working in 3.3 Locked	Mike Churchward 3 May 2017	Mike Churchward 24 Aug 2017	8
Error after upgrade from 2.9 to 3.2.3 in acceptance testing Locked	Ripa Desai 23 May 2017	Sara Arjona Téllez 14 Jul 2017	8
How would you test this in Behat? Locked	Tim Hunt 23 Jun 2017	AL Rachels 24 Jun 2017	1
Sending emails during Behat acceptance testing Locked	Dave Balch 15 Jun 2017	Dave Balch 15 Jun 2017	2
Removal of support for PhantomJS Locked	Andrew Lyons 1 Jun 2017	Andrew Lyons 1 Jun 2017	0
Moodle 3.3 QA testing cycle complete Locked	Helen Foster 10 May 2017	Luiggi Sansonetti 10 May 2017	1
Help needed with Moodle 3.3 QA testing Locked	Helen Foster 8 Apr 2017	Helen Foster 10 May 2017	30
Two English lang strings were switched in 3.3rc2 Locked	Germán Valero 10 May 2017	Helen Foster 10 May 2017	1
Behat tests won't run in 3.3 Locked	Mike Churchward 3 May 2017	Mike Churchward 3 May 2017	1
Help needed to obtain 100% pass rate in 3.3 QA testing Locked	Helen Foster 27 Apr 2017	Helen Foster 27 Apr 2017	0
Cant handle "Behat only can run if test mode is enabled." Locked	Olexandr Berezhnyk 25 Feb 2017	Carl Greenwood 20 Apr 2017	6
List of all issues in QA testing dashboard view Locked	Luiggi Sansonetti 10 Apr 2017	Luiggi Sansonetti 11 Apr 2017	2
Need guidance in locating elements in editor. Locked	Nandini Arumugam 1 Apr 2017	Nandini Arumugam 1 Apr 2017	0
Behat errors on Moodle 3.2 Locked	David Ligne 4 Feb 2017	Charles Fulton 31 Mar 2017	12
Random Behat issues on 3.2 Locked	Mike Churchward 25 Feb 2017	Mike Churchward 30 Mar 2017	4
Running tests on mac sierra Locked	Itamar Tzadok 15 Mar 2017	Kevin Wiliarty 24 Mar 2017	2
behat install problem Locked	Xavier Brosseau 3 Feb 2017	Rajesh Taneja 8 Mar 2017	10
How to avoid certain type of test with behat ? Locked	Xavier Brosseau 23 Feb 2017	Tim Hunt 23 Feb 2017	1
Generate test course with user activity Locked	Fernando Oliveira 10 Feb 2017	Rajesh Taneja 10 Feb 2017	1
Behat config path has been changed since 3.2.2 Locked	Rajesh Taneja 6 Feb 2017	Rajesh Taneja 6 Feb 2017	0
How to correctly use behat Locked	Xavier Brosseau 18 Jan 2017	David Ligne 31 Jan 2017	4
Use resource uploaded in repository Locked	j b 19 Jan 2017	j b 19 Jan 2017	0
How to set up webservice when running behat Locked	tam nguyen 13 Jan 2017	tam nguyen 15 Jan 2017	1
Help needed with Moodle 3.2 QA testing Locked	Rajesh Taneja 31 Oct 2016	Rajesh Taneja 2 Dec 2016	30
[3.1 QA Testing] Feedback and Wrong date in responsestime Locked	Luiggi Sansonetti 26 Apr 2016	Rajesh Taneja 1 Dec 2016	7
admin/tool/editrolesbycap/tests/behat/basic_test.feature Behat test failing Locked	Patrick Erichsen 19 Nov 2016	Tim Hunt 20 Nov 2016	1
PHPUnit : Version mismatch when launching class focussed unit test Locked	Valery Fremaux 13 Nov 2016	Valery Fremaux 13 Nov 2016	1
Help needed with Moodle 3.1 QA testing Locked	Helen Foster 26 Apr 2016	Rajesh Taneja 4 Nov 2016	42
How to install Moodle 3.2 from git Locked	Bente Olsen 1 Nov 2016	Bente Olsen 1 Nov 2016	5
Code mess detector tuning Locked	Valery Fremaux 22 Oct 2016	Dan Poltawski 25 Oct 2016	1
How to manage circular dependencies ? Locked	Valery Fremaux 21 Oct 2016	Valery Fremaux 24 Oct 2016	5
Behat Cache on Shared Host with Multiple Developers Locked	Travis Noll 7 Oct 2016	Rajesh Taneja 7 Oct 2016	1
2.3 - broken links in Restored Course Locked	Fernanda F. Ricou 13 Jun 2012	dom nerus 5 Oct 2016	8
How does one become a QA tester Locked	Albert Ramsbottom 3 May 2016	Rajesh Taneja 5 Oct 2016	11
Moodle 3.2 QA starting on 31st Oct. Locked	Rajesh Taneja 5 Oct 2016	Rajesh Taneja 5 Oct 2016	0
Travis-CI JSHint and never used functions Locked	Valery Fremaux 28 Sep 2016	Dan Poltawski 29 Sep 2016	1
Allow access to hidden resources and activities Locked	David Peachey 24 Jul 2009	Albert Leatherman 24 Sep 2016	15
Survey Results: Frond End Development and Unit Testing Trends! Locked	Debby Stone 11 Sep 2016	Debby Stone 13 Sep 2016	2
2. What is your most used Javascript framework for unit testing? Locked	Debby Stone 27 Jul 2016	Debby Stone 11 Sep 2016	2
Behat tests stuck on annotation pages Locked	David Ligne 26 Jul 2016	David Ligne 30 Aug 2016	3
Behat newbie: "Snippets not generated" for my steps definition Locked	Dave Balch 19 Aug 2016	Rajesh Taneja 24 Aug 2016	2
Notifying developers of behat failures Locked	Mark Johnson 2 Aug 2016	Mark Johnson 16 Aug 2016	2
HTML reports and Behat 3.0 Locked	Rex Lorenzo 4 Aug 2016	Rajesh Taneja 12 Aug 2016	2
Unit test performance Locked	David Dixon 8 Aug 2016	David Dixon 9 Aug 2016	2
Unzipping and displaying a folder in Moodle 2.0 Locked	Mary Cooch 2 Jan 2010	Rajesh Taneja 20 Jul 2016	14
Behat(3.0) parallel test fails with exit code 255 Locked	tulasi atikamsetti 1 Jul 2016	Rajesh Taneja 20 Jul 2016	3
Behat support for third party themes Locked	Rajesh Taneja 12 Jul 2016	Rajesh Taneja 20 Jul 2016	2
PHPUnit: mocking subplugins? Locked	Morgan Harris 13 Jul 2016	Morgan Harris 14 Jul 2016	2
Firefox Marionette driver Locked	Mark Johnson 14 Jun 2016	Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 1 Jul 2016	4
Moodle Integration Plugin Precheck Locked	Marcel Behrmann 24 Jun 2016	Marcel Behrmann 27 Jun 2016	2
Drag and Drop Matching with mp3 restorable? Locked	Dave Hyre 26 May 2016	Dave Hyre 26 May 2016	0
Moodle 3.1 QA testing cycle complete Locked	Rajesh Taneja 20 May 2016	Luiggi Sansonetti 20 May 2016	1
Behat init.php gives error dbconnectionfailed Locked	Joshua Todd Cowper 8 May 2016	Joshua Todd Cowper 10 May 2016	2
How to make a redirection in Behat? Locked	Julen Pardo 9 May 2016	Julen Pardo 9 May 2016	2
[3.1 QA Testing] Add Feedback block on qa moodle test Locked	Luiggi Sansonetti 26 Apr 2016	Luiggi Sansonetti 3 May 2016	3
Testing file downloads Locked	Mike Churchward 21 Apr 2016	Tim Hunt 22 Apr 2016	1
Should php version check be done for behat cli and webserver Locked	Rajesh Taneja 24 Mar 2016	Dan Poltawski 24 Mar 2016	1
Firefox behat failures with overlapping elements Locked	Mark Johnson 15 Mar 2016	Rajesh Taneja 24 Mar 2016	3
Behat 3. When in Moodle? Locked	Mariusz Szot 31 Mar 2015	Rajesh Taneja 14 Mar 2016	12
Parallel behat runs on seperate Selenium nodes Locked	Mark Johnson 9 Feb 2016	Mark Johnson 25 Feb 2016	9
Determining field identifier that is dynamically generated Locked	Mike Churchward 6 Feb 2016	Mike Churchward 11 Feb 2016	9
PHPUnit not creating tables for non-standard plugin Locked	Julen Pardo 9 Feb 2016	Julen Pardo 9 Feb 2016	2
Few scenarios failing with Selenium 2.49 Locked	Rajesh Taneja 21 Jan 2016	Rajesh Taneja 3 Feb 2016	4
Help with setting up Behat on a Mac Locked	Mike Churchward 19 Jan 2016	Mike Churchward 19 Jan 2016	5
PHPUnit : adding mnet hosts in DB not working Locked	Simon Vart 8 Jan 2016	Rajesh Taneja 12 Jan 2016	3
QA Testing Help needed :How to be an expert in Scripting Locked	Anjum Shaik 4 Jan 2016	Richard Oelmann 4 Jan 2016	1
Simple behat test failing with @javascrip, passing without Locked	Lenka Kolesarova 16 Dec 2015	Lenka Kolesarova 24 Dec 2015	3
Help needed with Moodle PHP7 QA testing Locked	Rajesh Taneja 11 Dec 2015	Rajesh Taneja 18 Dec 2015	10
Behat smashes the whole database every time I run it, so I cannot test my Atto plugin Locked	Julen Pardo 16 Dec 2015	David Monllaó 17 Dec 2015	5
PHPUnit testing Locked	tomasz kowalczyk 7 Dec 2015	tomasz kowalczyk 16 Dec 2015	3
Unable to run Behat tests Locked	Julen Pardo 14 Dec 2015	Dan Poltawski 14 Dec 2015	3
JavaScript style checker with JSCS Locked	Julen Pardo 9 Dec 2015	Damyon Wiese 10 Dec 2015	7
phpunit - Undefined class constant 'COLOR_DEFAULT' Locked	Gareth J Barnard 8 Dec 2015	Gareth J Barnard 8 Dec 2015	1
Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: The test file "evolution.test" should ... Locked	Gareth J Barnard 6 Dec 2015	Gareth J Barnard 7 Dec 2015	3
testunit problem ! Locked	Hélène Bouley 27 Nov 2015	Rajesh Taneja 3 Dec 2015	1
Travis CI configuration file for Moodle Locked	David Scotson 15 Nov 2012	David Monllaó 16 Nov 2015	10
Help needed with Moodle 3.0 QA testing Locked	Rajesh Taneja 12 Oct 2015	Manoj Singh 14 Nov 2015	47
Behat testing on IE Locked	Mark Johnson 3 Sep 2015	Rajesh Taneja 9 Nov 2015	3
Moodle 3.0 QA testing cycle complete Locked	Rajesh Taneja 4 Nov 2015	Tim Hunt 5 Nov 2015	2
Testing with Behat, I run into a moodle exception Locked	Mariana Tuma 22 Oct 2015	Rajesh Taneja 23 Oct 2015	3
behat currently logged in user Locked	Joey Andres 17 Oct 2015	Tim Hunt 18 Oct 2015	1
early testing of web svcs Locked	marco meli 14 Oct 2015	marco meli 14 Oct 2015	2
1062: Duplicate entry '1-kh8866' for key 3 Locked	kathy hooper 2 Mar 2007	Jessica Gramp 30 Sep 2015	9
Error writing to database Locked	Jeffrey Kelley 22 Apr 2014	Jamie Tinley 12 Sep 2015	4
"Call to undefined function" error crashes PHPUnit test Locked	Mariana Tuma 29 Aug 2015	Mariana Tuma 31 Aug 2015	3
Moodle 3.0dev has met phpunit 4.7 Locked	Rajesh Taneja 12 Aug 2015	Rajesh Taneja 12 Aug 2015	0
How to run individual tests using behat Locked	Tejaswi Pagadala 8 Oct 2014	Luke Carrier 11 Aug 2015	3
Performance tool - revamp. Locked	Rajesh Taneja 21 Jul 2015	Tim Hunt 27 Jul 2015	1
Testing Inbound Message Handling (mod/forum) Locked	Corey Wallis 16 Jul 2015	Corey Wallis 16 Jul 2015	0
Problem running Behat tests after running PHPUnit Locked	Ramindu Deshapriya 6 Jul 2015	Rajesh Taneja 14 Jul 2015	2
Checking whether correct elements were added to a form for Unit Tests Locked	Ramindu Deshapriya 3 Jul 2015	Ramindu Deshapriya 3 Jul 2015	3
Webdav repository and minisites Locked	José Gregorio Díaz Unda 22 Apr 2013	Tammy Moore 15 Jun 2015	1
Selenium 2.45 is slower than 2.44 for Firefox Locked	Rajesh Taneja 4 Jun 2015	Neill Magill 11 Jun 2015	2
Test for Moodle-Mahara integration Locked	Paula Ardanza 8 Jun 2015	Paula Ardanza 9 Jun 2015	2
Test validation question edit form Locked	Vadim Klevtsov 7 Jun 2015	Tim Hunt 8 Jun 2015	4
Selenium IDE command for confirmation pop-up Locked	Josiah Carberry 22 May 2015	Davo Smith 22 May 2015	1
Sharing behat scripts? Locked	Jessica Gramp 21 May 2015	Jessica Gramp 21 May 2015	2
Moodle Behat testing under a CI server Locked	Neill Magill 14 May 2015	Neill Magill 20 May 2015	4
Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Locked	Philip Siwinski 30 Sep 2010	Alexander Quesada 19 May 2015	3