GitLab 14.7 Release Kickoff, 20 Dec 2021

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From YouTube: GitLab 14.7 Kickoff - Verify:Testing

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Kickoff Page: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/kickoff/#verify
Ops Direction: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ops/#verify

Today we are kicking off the 14.7 milestone, which features great strides for the Project Quality Dashboard and Build artifacts. Gina will also take some time to dive into our UX priorities for the next few milestones!

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/344587
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/-/issues/1679
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/223793
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/238536

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My name is jackie, porter, the acting verify testing product manager and, as a reminder, the testing group is responsible for all. Your testing needs across gitlab from usability testing, which you leverage, review, apps for unit testing, accessibility and performance testing, as well as visibility, and to build artifacts. Today, we're kicking off the 14.7 milestone and I'm joined by gina doyle. Our fearless ux designer, which this milestone features great sides for the project, quality dashboard and build artifacts gina will also take some time to dive into our ux priorities.

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For the next few milestones, diving on in our first piece of work is around the first iteration for the project quality, summary mvc. While talking to application development director persona users, we discovered a ux difficulty in viewing test quality summaries.

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At the group level, we found out that they had a difficult time digging into data around passing tests, code coverage percentages and they had to really go to the latest pipeline to view that now in this dashboard, you can see all the latest information from the from the default pipeline in one place by going into the cicd analytics view and clicking into the project quality summary tab to see trends over time.

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This is the core deliverable for our milestone and gina has some really interesting things that she's researching also in 14.7.

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Thanks, jackie so for ux we're going to turn our attention to research and there's a lot of research for the testing team. That's already been done, and then we also just want to pull out actionable insights from that existing research and the focus will be on artifacts as a whole, because we realize that there are a lot of gaps in that experience today. We believe that this will help us identify more gaps in the experience and empower our team to leverage those insights to then create solutions.

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So we're excited to continue looking at the research for this milestone.

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Wow jana: this is really exciting, especially since we have two issues in 14.7 that are around artifacts, we'll be delivering, and these issues are going to really improve the build artifacts experience. First and foremost, is the api to bulk delete artifacts, which is an incredible way to drive efficiency for users responsible for maining target, maintaining artifacts, including test artifact outputs.

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The second issue is a script to recalculate all out of artifact sizes. This is the fourth step to fix how artifact sizes are rendered in gitlab, giving you better visibility into storage and artifact usage as a whole.

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We are so happy for 14.7 and really look forward to hearing any feedback you have about our features and the work that we're completing. Thank you all for for watching.