  
| Author: | Teup  | | Posted: | May 8, 2014 12:44 | | Subject: | Re: Implement a Validation Team for BL Changes | | Viewed: | 67 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, lovaquero writes:
| | SUGGESTION:
BL development team needs to implement a validation process to validate any changes
made to BL prior to live roleout. This should include the use of personas,
a focus test team, and potential involvement of community members.
This is common industry practice for any software development team, and is needed
if BL is operating in a Scrum/Agile development fashion (which appears to be
the case).
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I REALLY like how BL is finally starting to implement some of the
suggestions from the BL community. Many of these changes are positive, and I
commend BL for starting to take action to improve the website.
Having said that, too many of the changes are seemingly being implemented without
any sort of validation or consideration to what the impact will be. It is
like the developers working on the site have no process to prove-out the changes
prior making those changes live.
Case In Point:
A new 'color' box was added to order line-items to help with color-picked
parts. This was implemented in HTML as a 'background' color. On-screen
this looks good, but to print you must enable background printing. This, in
turn, caused the entire page to print, which was too much. So BL removed all
background color, made the order page completely white (even overriding default
browser settings) and added a thick black border around the order.
Problems with this:
(1) To print the color boxes one still needs to change print settings specific
to BL. Then change back the settings for other websites.
(2) If you DO print orders, you now have roughly doubled your black ink
comsumption due to the unneeded black border
(3) If you DO NOT print orders, you are blinded by the glaring order page.
This is bad for your eyes and bad for your monoitor.
(4) You cannot override the layout/color scheme due to webpage implementation
All of these problems should have been identified and addresses prior to the
constant changes being implemented. A proper validation process would have identified
the root problem (i.e. how the color boxes were implemented) and created a solution
to fix the root problem rather then its symptoms (i.e. unable to print the color
boxes). This would have resulted in the issue being identified and corrected
(i.e. implement the boxes differently) before the new feature was mode live on
the website.
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Aye.
Very well put. Thanks for writing this 
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Message is in Reply To: 25 Messages in this Thread:  Msg 1 - lovaquero (2128)  123 months ago May 8, 2014 to Suggestions
 Msg 2 - enig (6361) 123 months ago May 8, 2014 to Suggestions
Msg 3 - Miffy. (1034) 123 months ago May 8, 2014 to Suggestions
Msg 4 - DagsBricks (913) 123 months ago May 8, 2014 to Suggestions
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Msg 8 « - Teup (6610) 123 months ago May 8, 2014 to Suggestions
Msg 9 - MYLEGOBRICKS (3021) 123 months ago May 8, 2014 to Suggestions
Msg 10 - enig (6361) 123 months ago May 8, 2014 to Suggestions
Msg 11 - Teup (6610) 123 months ago May 8, 2014 to Suggestions
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Msg 14 - lovaquero (2128) 123 months ago May 9, 2014 to Suggestions
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Msg 19 - ToriHada (8887) 123 months ago May 9, 2014 to Suggestions
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