Automation of Testing, Github & Stores

[ghost]

Edit by @ImprovedTube (Repurposing this thread)

To-Do:

• Automated uploads by Github actions( Chrome & FireFox & Edge Chrome Web Store Safari Opera Whale )
  (or Store's APIs: Chrome & FireFox & Microsoft Edge Store Safari Opera Whale)

  • Building for the Browser's Stores : https://github.com/code-for-charity/YouTube-Extension/tree/master/py

• Automated tests by Github Actions? or Selenium or... ( Possibly different rounds, with popular settings or everything & performance. Which could periodically run on the master branch or after every PR and commit)

[EvgenKo423]

Were you using Beta a lot too by chance?

No, I'm using release, but with new UI it's much less polished, unfortunately (even though this UI exists for 3-4 years now; it was just me using the old one till the very end).

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I was actually thinking a few times how your workflow could be made better, but unfortunately there's a huge gap for me now between thinking and actually working on it (I think of many things from time to time, but unfortunately there's no mental programming technique yet 🤭, we would be much more productive).

Here are a few things:

1. dev, beta and master branches:

   • Every 2 weeks dev is merged into beta -> automatic beta release to store (GH Actions, no idea if it's possible);
   • Every 2 weeks beta is merged into master -> automatic stable release to store;
   • Bug fix commits to beta and master only.

2. Automated tests of all functionality (GH Actions, no idea if it's possible; though Selenium exists):

   • Basic checks: default settings + each option turned on at a time. Executed on every push;
   • Complete checks: every possible combination of settings tested (will probably eat a lot of Action time). Executed before every merge to beta / master;
   • Performance checks: one setting at a time, test on all page types (home, channel, video...). CPU usage (or maybe something more appropriate) is measured for 3-5 seconds after page is ready. Executed before every merge to beta / master.

   Actual YT pages are crawled before the test. All tests are done on local copies.

[ImprovedTube]

old GUI? i liked the darkRed-white-contrast & pixel density(need not be bigger than browser icons)
less polished, why? 'New' one still got list-view option. Newer displays have smaller pixels and more contrast.
Some new users might expect/prefer calm experience & low mouse control/touchpad?

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Testing consistency & CPU with Selenium
👍

Github actions

https://dev.to/michaelcurrin/beginner-s-guide-to-github-actions-49aa#:~:text=What%20is%20GitHub%20Actions

Just a question of time and number of GitHub action / pull requests (not many yet)

(+ AI for the project to program itself)

The bug caused few uninstalls/reinstalls:
maybe 100 or 0.03% 🤔 hard to guess - the few guys giving 1 Star, might harm more on a longer term)

Yet on the same day we should have focused even more on the 2800 new installations / over 0.5%

[EvgenKo423]

old GUI, why?

I mean YouTube UI. =)) Your extension worked much better with old YouTube UI (and the UI worked better itself).

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It could be used for direct contributions as well (and you could make PRs from dev to beta to run tests), it would make finding bugs much easier.

[ImprovedTube]

ohh of course 😀 @EvgenKo423

automatic beta release to store (GH Actions, no idea if it's possible);

• Notes on required differences per Browser Store, from our experience

Github Actions to publish 🌞 with: Chrome Web Store & FireFox & Edge

• (+ API Documentation: Chrome Web Store & FireFox & Microsoft Edge Store )

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Plan:
master = we read the PR's per contributor + devs/testers (few) automatically run this in browsers
+daily autotesting = beta (not a repo)
+longer-autotest + some days = stable (not a repo)

+automatic release notes?🤔

exception: urgent changes after youtube changes

Goal:

4.9 stars & keeping people up-to-date. Get feedback for new features soon enough for every contributor.
& beta: ~4.5 stars (many people didnt notice what version they get (testing) - including a large organisation with 1000s of users )

dev ... direct contributions

= world editing. easier collaboration, only if there are ever two people updating the same feature on the same day

[User198263321]

I hope that this has an optional setting to toggle the old style.

[Moninha123]

Problema corrigido com sucesso, ficou muito bom

[mrangjunboon2019]

i sad!:(