Overview
In this lesson, we are going to analyze the “Project Execution” feature. This is a quickly way to review the application that will help the project team members to create defects or add/modify controls inside the page that you we are working on. Automatically
Let’s check how automatically the revision will can be added in into the Requirement project’s requirement as pending task with this feature.
How to execute a Project in Wayfast?
To begin, let’s make sure that we have an active requirement inside our project. Focus on “Project Execution” header icon
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With Pencil: this option will run the preview showing a highlighting pencil on each object inside the page to make some notes and add some new tasks for the team.
Wihout Without Pencil: this is the same preview that you can use on every page generated to verify that the objects added into the screen are displayed like it’s expected.
In this caseexample, we are interested on analyze the application using “With pencil” option to generate new requirements or bugs on the application that we are developing.
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Make sure that the project contains a “Homepage” associated. Turn to General Options and set the homepage before execute the project. |
Once we select “With Pencil” option, let’s execute the application by clicking on “Run” button
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A new tab is opened with the application displayed on the screen. Mouseover the “Label” “Inputbox” control and you we will see the pencil icon available. Click on it and a popup window is going to be prompted.
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Let’s check the properties inside this popup
Comment on control
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Control | Dropdown with the 2 options:
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Position the new control | This field is only visible if select “New control”. There are 4 options to select: Up, Down, Right, Left |
Requirement Type | This field is only visible if select “Modify control”
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Description | Name of the object that is going to be added as bug/requirement in “Requirements” section |
Sprint | We can select the sprint where we want to include this new bug/requirement. |
Size | Estimation time for the requirement
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Developer | Assigned person to work on this bug/requirement |
Criticality | We can select the importance of this requirement:
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Now that we learnt how to execute and review using “Project Execution”, in the following sectionslesson, we are going to analyze how these 2 possible scenarios are can be added into the development.
Create a “New Control” task based on Project Execution
Once you we click on “Pencil” icon to make a note comment over this control, select “New Control” option.
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We need to include the position of this new control that we want to add. Make a brief description that will help the developers to understand this action item and include the estimation size, assigned developer and set the expectations to finalize the requestcriticality. Also we can put a comment in the description to provide more insight on the requested item.
Click on “Submit” button
If we want to verify that the requirement is created in our project, let’s go to “Requirements” section
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Automatically we can identify the object as Bug inside the “Pending Tasks” bucket and also it’s listed at the left navigation bar. Click on task’s details and we can verify that all the information is retrieved the same saved from the Project Execution feature.
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In case anyone in the project wants to work on the task, check it and turn it active.
Create a “Modify Control” task based on Project Execution
In this caseexample, once you we click on “Pencil” icon to make a note over this control, we will select “Modify Control” option.
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We need to choose between “Bug” if there’s any defect inside the control or “Requirement” in case you want to make a change anythingrequest. Again, it’s important to add a detailed description that will help the developers to understand the task and include the estimation size, assigned developer and set the expectations to finalize criticality before submit the request.
Click on “Submit” button and turn to “Requirements” section
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Requirement dashboard will display the object as Requirement inside the “Pending Tasks” bucket and also it’s listed at the left navigation bar. Click on task’s details and we can verify that all the information is retrieved from the Project Execution feature.
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Recap
Using the “Project Execution” feature, we can manage our project and delivery new tasks by simply navigating through the application. We can have a better traceability over the new items or reported defects that are part of the development process.