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These are all the meetings we have in "Testing Group UX" (part of the organization "GitLab"). Click into individual meeting pages to watch the recording and search or read the transcript.

12 Feb 2022

Gina Doyle (Product Designer: Pipeline Insights & Runner) summarizes the UX scorecard evaluation for Review Apps, a GitLab feature within the Pipeline Insights group.

Referenced links/issues:
- Review apps documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/review_apps/
- UX scorecard process at GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/ux-scorecards/#intro-and-goal
- Review apps to Lovable epic: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/7313
- Scorecard issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/352789
- Recommendations issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/352790
  • 1 participant
  • 10 minutes
reviewing
ux
usability
testing
scorecard
evaluation
apps
users
process
aspects
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28 Oct 2021

Gina and James talk through getting the Project Quality Summary MVC issues to be more up to date, what's really in the MVC and how we got where we are about the data being presented.
  • 2 participants
  • 19 minutes
testing
finalizing
authentication
tasks
sync
improvements
validation
taking
discussion
ahead
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28 Oct 2021

Gina Doyle (Product Designer, Verify:Testing and Runner) walks through a proposed update to test coverage report badges (found on project overview pages), which will ultimately be carried through to the Project Quality Summary that the testing group is working on developing.

Issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/344231
  • 1 participant
  • 3 minutes
testing
badges
colors
coverage
indication
ruby
issue
pajamas
documentation
icons
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21 Oct 2021

Gina and James cover how to wrap up current research around JTBD and Opportunity validation and how to hand those items off at the end of the quarter.
  • 2 participants
  • 18 minutes
testing
scheduled
users
profile
task
interview
performance
review
ready
concern
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13 Oct 2021

James and Gina discussed the iterations on the Project Quality Summary MVC (https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/5430) and what next steps would be now that the initial Jobs To Be Done (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/jobs-to-be-done/) research is done for Usability Testing.
  • 2 participants
  • 16 minutes
milestones
gitlab
discussion
testing
project
features
taking
gina
sync
week
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7 Oct 2021

Gina and James talk priorities, the new iteration plan for the Project Quality Summary, progress on the MR Widget WG, how we delete job logs and how that compares to job artifacts, and why the dogs in James' neighborhood always bark during this call.
  • 2 participants
  • 22 minutes
milestones
reviewing
prioritize
process
completed
planning
performance
updates
ahead
project
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30 Sep 2021

Gina and James did a bit of a deep dive on what's next for JTBD research in prep for upcoming maturity changes (covered in a previous video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dRkVVS-0s4).
  • 2 participants
  • 24 minutes
testing
sync
maintenance
tasks
reviewing
prioritize
milestone
screener
performance
ready
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23 Sep 2021

Gina and James discuss how to analyze the data coming from the Jobs To Be Done interviews for the Usability category, when we lock down the planning issues and the research James and Scott are starting to schedule.
  • 2 participants
  • 11 minutes
testing
edits
brainstorming
analyzing
refinement
project
findings
review
users
sync
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15 Sep 2021

Gina and James discuss priority on a MR page UX improvement, current research initiatives and priority vs. design iterations.
  • 2 participants
  • 10 minutes
reviewing
workflow
milestones
issue
updates
interview
priority
project
testing
product
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2 Sep 2021

Gina and James talk about how the changes to Maturity dates (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dRkVVS-0s4) impact the UX KRs and Gina's research in FY22Q3.
  • 2 participants
  • 18 minutes
testing
2021
workflow
ready
review
validating
updates
performance
ux
process
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5 Aug 2021

Today's the first recording with our new Product Designer Gina. We recapped what she's working on and refined an upcoming change to the Browser Performance Widget display to show percentage of changes as an MVC and future iteration ideas.

Performance changes as a % issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/226987
  • 2 participants
  • 18 minutes
milestones
browser
updates
figma
performance
prioritize
discussion
gina
plan
features
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3 Aug 2021

No description provided.
  • 3 participants
  • 27 minutes
gina
onboarding
usability
initiatives
transitioning
testing
users
enhancements
discussion
tasks
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16 Mar 2021

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

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

We love feedback and you can reach me at jheimbuck@gitlab.com or mention me on GitLab.com using @jheimbuck_gl
  • 2 participants
  • 6 minutes
validation
gitlab
milestone
violations
workflow
1311
version
issue
showing
status
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16 Mar 2021

No description provided.
  • 2 participants
  • 22 minutes
validation
issue
considering
finalized
designers
confirm
diff
version
sigma
review
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9 Mar 2021

No description provided.
  • 2 participants
  • 22 minutes
augmenting
dashboard
versions
implementation
discussion
figma
ahead
usability
planning
milestone
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2 Mar 2021

No description provided.
  • 2 participants
  • 24 minutes
vitica
issue
diff
sync
usability
testing
approvals
views
updates
ui
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16 Feb 2021

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

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

We love feedback and you can reach me at jheimbuck@gitlab.com or mention me on GitLab.com using @jheimbuck_gl
  • 2 participants
  • 3 minutes
testing
ui
milestone
usability
features
gitlab
visibility
status
capabilities
important
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9 Feb 2021

No description provided.
  • 2 participants
  • 27 minutes
discussion
enhancements
ux
redesigning
polish
review
tooltip
updated
clarification
platform
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6 Jan 2021

Darren (Runner PM), James (Testing PM) and Rayana (Designer) talk about next major research initiatives on the last joint call.
  • 3 participants
  • 20 minutes
runners
workflow
discussion
planning
epic
tracking
enterprise
prototyping
technical
initiatives
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18 Nov 2020

Darren (Runner PM), James (Testing PM) and Rayana (Designer) do introductions and talk about current projects.
  • 3 participants
  • 29 minutes
onboarding
hi
collaboration
gitlab
ci
interview
experience
finishing
introduce
testing
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7 Oct 2020

Today Juan, Nadia, Lorrie and James reviewed the current state of the Research Projects the Testing group is doing and the needs for design on Code Quality visualization in the MR / Diff view.
  • 3 participants
  • 10 minutes
testing
tasks
validated
updates
surveys
concerns
2020
research
sync
verify
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16 Sep 2020

Today Juan, Nadia and James talked about upcoming design issues in 13.5 and 13.6, current state of research and why James got yelled at by his daughter's teacher during the call.
  • 3 participants
  • 20 minutes
sync
anticipate
project
verify
brainstorming
scheduled
taking
roadmaps
concern
challenges
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2 Sep 2020

Juan J. Ramirez shares designs for the vision for testing categories.
  • 1 participant
  • 16 minutes
testing
thinking
gitlab
initiatives
showing
tests
tested
test
benchmarking
planning
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26 Aug 2020

Today Juan, Nadia and James talked about:

* Current Design items being done in 13.4 and the priority of them https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=group%3A%3Atesting&label_name[]=workflow%3A%3Adesign&milestone_title=13.4
* Which personas to target for the current research of JTBD for Cod Testing and Coverage - https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/ci-cd/verify/testing/JTBD/
* Ways to research low or declining usage of features - https://app.periscopedata.com/app/gitlab/633395/Testing-Category-Metrics
  • 3 participants
  • 25 minutes
testing
prioritizing
milestones
issue
workflow
reviews
validating
taking
showing
discussed
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24 Aug 2020

Brainstorming session for JTBD for the Code Testing and Coverage category.

Issue for JTBD: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/testing-group/-/issues/19
Testing JTBD page: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/ci-cd/verify/testing/JTBD/
  • 4 participants
  • 21 minutes
job
testing
brainstorming
process
project
doing
junit
working
useful
implement
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12 Aug 2020

Today Juan, Nadia and James reviewed some of the current items in design in 13.3 and coming in 13.4 and clarified the expectations and feedback loop timing for the designs for Testing Vision and how that works into upcoming Vision work for the Verify stage. There was a long discussion about the current state of the JUnit Report page and all the improvements/data being added to the page and how to bring some order to those . . . . changes.
  • 3 participants
  • 19 minutes
validation
designing
ahead
concern
milestone
workflow
testing
2020
review
updates
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5 Aug 2020

Today we discussed our current research and design projects, next steps for the Category Maturity Scorecard for the Code Testing and Coverage category and Juan and James talked about how the team can integrate the work being done by the Certify Group to capture tests and requirements for releases to extend the Test History MVC.

Test History Solution Validation: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/-/issues/951
Code Coverage Reports Problem Validation: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/-/issues/989

Quality Management MVC issue: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/3852
  • 3 participants
  • 13 minutes
milestones
validations
process
ux
testing
minimal
sync
verified
review
development
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22 Jul 2020

In today's session Juan and James deep dive on why not to fix the confusing Visual Review Tools button right away (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/227049) to drive additional adoption of the feature. Hopefully.
  • 2 participants
  • 22 minutes
testing
maintainer
diesel
issue
verified
review
tooltip
ux
developer
users
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8 Jul 2020

In today's session we talk about next steps for Test Execution History, 13.2 and 13.3 designs and Juan's progress on making the MR Widgets easier to understand. I'm looking at you "Source branch only".
  • 4 participants
  • 17 minutes
testing
discussion
planning
refinement
emily
milestone
ahead
workflow
project
review
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24 Jun 2020

In today's session we talk about the scorecard process to move "Code Quality" and "Code Testing and Coverage" categories from Minimal to Viable, the design work happening in 13.2 and 13.3 and how the team can help Lorie in interviews for the MR performance research.
  • 3 participants
  • 18 minutes
maturity
validating
discussed
viability
finalized
scorecard
testing
reviewing
tasks
forerunners
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17 Jun 2020

Today's session was a discussion on how the MR beautification aligns with a Product Key Result, discussion on how to proceed with researching where/how to display test history and how Sahara sand is coming for Texas.
  • 4 participants
  • 14 minutes
prioritizing
enhancements
usability
milestones
discussed
product
merge
clarify
tasks
issue
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5 Jun 2020

Today's session was a discussion on an MR Beautification project, an ask to create some mocks to "show" the vision for Code Testing and Coverage for an upcoming analyst review, using the Web Performance and Accessibility features for an internal epic (yeah dog-fooding!) and an update from Juan on some inflight design and implementation items.

Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lBo6x1hoZigWL7kcS6uFo-ncxcu7SE8_WDUsewk4Kbc/edit#

MR Beautification Issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/217568
  • 3 participants
  • 22 minutes
enhancements
testing
proposal
milestones
discussed
achieving
concerns
review
merge
process
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29 May 2020

Today we talked about how we'll record the kickoff video for 13.2 and had a follow-up discussion on where the Accessibility category ended up from the maturity scorecard review.
  • 4 participants
  • 21 minutes
milestones
initiative
ux
product
addressing
kickoffs
stages
workflow
2020
exciting
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15 May 2020

Discussion about adding JTBD to the team's handbook page, Marcel's video about MR widgets and next steps for moving maturity after the score card is finished for Accessibility.
  • 4 participants
  • 25 minutes
tasks
testing
scorecard
maturity
process
working
performance
workflow
iterative
jobs
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8 May 2020

Nadia has questions about the current state of Usability Testing, we review designs for the Group Code Coverage page and Juan updates us on the Category Maturity Scorecard interviews completed for Accessibility.
  • 3 participants
  • 22 minutes
review
helper
tweak
feedbacks
template
testings
view
enabling
planning
thinking
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4 May 2020

We discuss if we need to do a Usability test before a score card for some categories that are set to mature in Q2 and Juan provides an update on the Category Maturity Scorecard for accessibility already in progress.
  • 4 participants
  • 17 minutes
usability
testing
qualitative
review
questionnaire
functionality
accessibility
validation
benchmarking
clarifying
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27 Mar 2020

No description provided.
  • 3 participants
  • 22 minutes
followup
initiative
research
task
currently
testing
participants
important
discussions
plans
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24 Jan 2020

Sync between the groups on current and upcoming research items.
  • 3 participants
  • 21 minutes
testing
project
discussions
milestones
review
interview
issue
validation
customers
anticipate
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3 Jan 2020

Sync between UX, Research and PM on upcoming problem, solution and design items from Jan 3, 2020.
  • 3 participants
  • 10 minutes
discussion
emily
interview
accessibility
chats
mike
soon
thanks
plan
audience
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6 Dec 2019

Sync of Product Management, UX and Research from the testing group
  • 3 participants
  • 21 minutes
discussion
workflow
testing
revalidating
session
issue
capability
user
review
present
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22 Nov 2019

Review of design work for upcoming milestones 12.6 and 12.7 and review of Solution Validation work the Testing group is doing.
  • 3 participants
  • 28 minutes
concerns
testing
graphs
discussion
project
ux
instructions
updates
mono
review
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