Note by @fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

2w

Super quick micro-review of StartTesting.net from @mikedoise. Note that I've only spent maybe an hour with it, so I may have missed features.

The Good:
* I love the "accessibility issue" type, complete with WCAG sections right there, easy to search and attach
* Has Jira fields like projects, milestones, features, etc. and is much more accessible and easier to use than Jira
* creating pages/views, complete with associated URL, is really handy
* Tailor (@tayarndt) is super quick finding and fixing issues; she fixed my problem within like 10 minutes

The bad:
* I can't attach images; especially when doing accessibility reporting and testing, screenshots are a huge part of what clients expect in results
* Similarly I can't attach log files or other traces to issues
* no "blocks" or "is blocked by" to help link bugs/issues together; this is one of two things missing to make this a complete project management solution
* no "due date", unless I missed it: this would be the other feature that completes start testing for project management

The nice to have:
* report templates: I'd like to be able to set up a template, then export a project based on that template. This would make Start Testing a full solution for report generation
* default issue type: It would be nice to change this. In some projects I would want "bug", but I'd rather "accessibility" in others

With a few months more work, and just a couple more features, I could easily see myself paying for this. Especially if I could export based on templates.

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Taylor Arndt @tayarndt@techopolis.social

2w

@fastfinge @mikedoise Thank you for taking the time to share this thoughtful review. I also really appreciate your kind words about how quickly I have responded to your feedback and fixed the issues you found. (1/4)

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Taylor Arndt @tayarndt@techopolis.social

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At Techopolis, we genuinely care about making Start Testing useful, accessible, and easy to work with. You are absolutely right that images and file attachments are important when documenting an issue. I am adding direct attachment support today. (2/4)
@fastfinge @mikedoise

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Taylor Arndt @tayarndt@techopolis.social

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Start Testing already includes scheduling tools as well. You can create a milestone with its own start date and due date, connect individual issues to that milestone, and give each issue its own start and due date. This helps teams track both the larger delivery goal and the deadline for each piece of work.
If those options were not easy to find, that is valuable feedback too. A feature is only useful when people can discover and understand it. (3/4)
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@tayarndt @mikedoise Ah! I didn’t explore milestones deeply enough. I’m used to setting dates directly on issues. My bad! I look forward to attachments! Once those are in I’ll grab a paid account so I can have multiple projects.

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