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Technical Details

Current Release Version: 20212023.1.0

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Application Location: Google Drive / QA Cycles

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Requested Features

Current Cycle

Release 2022.

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2.0 [

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December 2022 -

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Spring QA Cycle]

Features to Complete

  • Linking/adding a “Courses to be QA’d” tab to keep everything in one spot
    • Not sure what this requests means
  • Pull courses only from the SPS subfolder (not all over A&S)
    • The folder structure is all over the place, so this may not be advisable

  • Not started

Features to Consider

  • Additional test cases
    • Possibly add in test cases to account for media team gaps
  • Improved security
    • API keys and access to advanced functionality
  • Move menu items to an admin panel at the right and make the order of execution more clear
    • Show details about when the actions were last performed (or if at all)
  • Incorporate the "Cycle Open Checklist" into the tracker
    • This can be as simple as a new tab with a checklist of the tasks to be performed for the cycle
    • Include in the Reset MST code to clear the checklist and revert to the default state
  • Process Improvement
    • Dynamically pull the list of available terms using the Canvas API
      • Add to the Reset MTS code to get the latest values
      • Eliminates the manual step of adding the new term to the sheet before a cycle starts
    • Move the QA Cycle Notes to a tab in the sheet to keep all feedback in one place for review
      • Add to the Reset MST code to clear for new cycles
    • Function to spin up a new MST for a new term using the current sheet as the basis
      • Copy the current sheet to a new folder
      • Update the sharing permissions on the new folder to grant all of the users from the bench editor privileges
      • Grant access to edit the Control Panel tab to all managers
    • Show/hide tabs based on the user that is logged into Google
      • Managers should see everything
      • Testers should see the tabs for courses that were assigned to them, and any shared info sheets that make sense
      • Designers should see the tabs for their courses, and any shared info sheets that make sense 

Features Ready for Release

  • Not started

Previous Cycles

Release 2023.1.0

  • Link Checking
    • Reinstated the Zendesk ignore filter on the link checker
    • Added 403 responses to the ignore filter

Release 2022.1.0 [April 2022 - Summer QA Cycle]

  • Change reminder time to 9AM and prevent weekend reminders
  • Make QA Fixes Completed? Yes / No automatic if “Complete” or “deferred to faculty” selected.
  • FIX: When all fixes are complete, and the completed flag is set, reverting an item back to in process does not unset the flag
  • Change column title from “ALL QA Users” to "Active" or "QA users to receive emails".
  • Remove automation that has no purpose (ones added in by different developer)
  • Remove need to add “fixer” since this is always the designer
    • Changed the Fixer column to Instructional Designer, but kept all of the fixer logic in place
  • Remove the AEC test cases and supporting code
  • Validate the following features/bugs
    • Add SPS Courses
    • Open QA Cycle
    • Close QA Cycle
    • Reset Master Tracking Sheet
    • Sort Sheets automation
    • Automation for Check Links takes a long time
      • This is normal for large courses or a cycle with many courses
    • Completing all tests and fixes trigger Yes on the Tracking Detail and in the individual test sheet
      • The automatic flip of the fixes complete was not working
        • This is a case where the code is looking for "Not Started" or "In Progress" which will not always be the case
        • Now clears the values in the Fix Assigned To and Fix Status column for cases where the test has passed
    • Automation Check Links automation triggers Check Publish for some reason, so now Check Publish says "pass" even though I haven't started that automation at this point
      • Resolved and confirmed
    • QA Fixes Completed? Yes / No automatically switches to “Yes”, even though the cycle hasn’t started.
      • Resolved and confirmed
      • BUG: Fixed issue with updates applying to the Tracking Detail sheet when they should not
  • Cleaned up the Control Panel and relocated some of the cells to make it more compact

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Release 2021.1.0 [December 2021 - Spring QA Cycle]

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