Testing is a mindset that can be developed. If you are seeking the root of an issue, can define steps that need to be taken to repeat this issue and describe all your discoveries — you are a tester! The ability to spot things that can be improved or need to be fixed is a superpower that is naturally developing in an inquiring mind. If you are such a type, the Test Team is the perfect place to apply and develop your talents.
The Test team’s members are spread across all other teams because each and everyone need something to test.
- The Accessibility team tests to make WordPress accessible.
- The Marketing team tests to make sure that the descriptions of features it highlights is accurate and to understand the value behind the changes and improvements.
- The Training team tests lessons plans to improve logic and spot uneasy places.
- The Support team tests cases from the Support forum and report them as issues if it is not a unique case but a bug that can be fixed or improvement which can be implemented.
- The Tide team is all about the automatic testing of themes and plugins.
- Themes and Plugins teams mostly rely on automatic testing tools but make manuals tests as well.
- Design tests new solutions for accessibility and UX.
- The CLI Team takes care of the official command-line tool for interacting with and managing your WordPress sites which are widely used for testing purposes.
- The Mobile team builds the iOS and Android apps and there is no go without testing.
But most attention of testers is riveted traditionally to the Core Team and also devoted particularly to the Block Editor and exciting coming feature — Full Site Editing (FSE).
Find out more about team and its work in the team news.
For new people
If you want to test things you can pick almost any team and test things you are most passionate about but to dive deeply, join testing team channels on Slack: Core Test and FSE Outreach Experiment.
Try your strength with “FSE Program Testing Call #7: Polished Portfolios” — follow instructions and leave feedback until 16th June 2021.
The team meetings happen in the #core-test Slack channel each week on Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (15:00 CEST).
You are most welcome to join #fse-outreach-experiment Slack channel if you want to take part in FSE testing.
Get started with the tools
Set up a WordPress.org and Slack account for the Make WordPress Channel.
If you can’t find a video in your own language, come and help make one! Translation is one of the ways you can contribute to WordPress and make a difference for many people.
Existing contributors
Just join the Team on the Slack channel #core-test.