2020Q3 Progress of RevMan Web development
Sprints
Agenda Sprint demo
What did we complete in the sprint?
- Short summary
- Demo of new functionality
- Feedback
- Summarize comments from demo
- Update on comments from previous demo
How are we progressing towards our quarterly targets?
Adoption and activity in RevMan Web
What do we plan to work on in the next sprint?
Sprint demo
Stories completed and shown in the demo:
| Story | Roadmap item | Released |
|---|---|---|
User experience improvements to:
| Increase reliability | Yes |
| Updated MECIR standards | Increase reliability | Yes |
User experience improvement to the import of references: Visual indication when a reference is imported. | Increase reliability | Yes |
Other work completed in the sprint:
- Remove synchronization process integration test completed (and several bugs caught and fixed)
Ongoing work from the sprint:
- Updating links when studies or references are deleted
- Guidelines for error messages in RevMan Web
- Various JATS tasks
- Update RevMan 5 version used by ReviewDB
Comments from demo:
Notes: Can the new note default text be automatically removed when you start typing? Also other places where there is default text, e.g. 'New Study 1'
Notes: The notes can become very long and thin in the context panel, could we have an option to resize the column for ease of reading?
Sprint demo
Stories completed and shown in the demo:
| Story | Roadmap item | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Access notes for previous versions | Remove synchronization process | No |
| Show who made the last edits when an automatically tagged version is tagged | Remove synchronization process | No |
| Show if someone is viewing the review | Increase reliability | Yes |
| See full title of review | Small improvement | Yes |
| Immediate feedback when navigating in the review | Small improvement | Yes |
Other work completed in the sprint:
- When selecting to include RoB in the forest plot analysis graph, this is now reflected in the published review
- Default RoB setting for figure should follow setting for analysis
- Monitoring of backend performance
- Test engineer candidate selected
- 1 small improvement
Comments from demo:
TBA.
Sprint summary
Stories completed:
No stories were completed, Integration test and Access notes for previous versions are in progress.
Other work completed:
- Investigation to understand what type of monitoring of performance we would like to implement
- RevMan 5.4.1 released
- 1st and 2nd round interviews for Test engineer
- 2 small improvements
- 2 bug fixes
Comments from demo:
No demo
Sprint demo
Stories completed and shown in the demo:
| Story | Roadmap item | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Check in any version as a super user | Remove synchronization process | No |
| Update Dashboard messages | Remove synchronization process | No |
| Show number of studies | Small improvement | Yes |
| Send in suggestion | Small improvement | Yes |
Other work completed in the sprint:
- Rehearsal release of changes to Archie and RevMan Web on test environment
- Screened CVs for test engineer role
- 4 bug fixes
- 10 small improvements
Comments from demo:
- Could My reviews distinguish between reviews in editorial vs unsupported reviews? With the Remove synchronization changes this will be more clear.
- Could the number of studies be displayed in a different way to increase readability? Added as small improvement.
Sprint demo 28 Aug 2020
Stories completed and shown in the demo:
- Check in supported reviews
- Split status panel into Status and Actions
- Override errors as a super user
- Enable saving a PDF of the review
Other work completed in the sprint:
- Stress test
- Preparation for release rehearsal by updating the import of reviews to ReviewDB
- RevMan 5.4 bug fixes: 2
- RevMan Web bug fixes: 2
Remove synchronization process
List of stories included in the roadmap item.
List of outstanding tasks, e.g. release related.