This is a great idea.
In fact, I was already ruminating on a reports improvement/customization Epic and this seems like an excellent place to start.
Iāll ping you here to take a look when I get it added in the next few days!
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Thank you for this @simon_tomes!
My first question is āHow could we auto-generate a summary?ā and this seems like a wonderful place to start.
As I mentioned to @oxygenaddict above, I was already contemplating reports and how they needed some love and improvements. 
I have also reached out to some of the folks who give sessions here on MoT about better reports to pick their brains as well, so hopefully that leads to some great ideas/options for improved reporting.
Additionally, YATTIE is getting another release with a āpre and post flightā checklist feature (which allows you to set checklists for before and after your session and designate them as mandatory or not) and this could tie right in! So Iām imagining a setting that you can flip to enable the summary box on session completion.
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Thanks for the feedback!
Iām curious what you were expecting for an exploratory testing tool? All of the exploratory tools I found in my research are pretty prescriptive on the chronological cataloguing of evidence captured, so it seemed like a good place to start before branching off into something more generally useful!
That being said, there are a few other additional features like pre and post flight checklists, mind mapping, notes templates, etc that YATTIE has. And, full transparency, the XRay tool has the JIRA integration that YATTIE doesnāt have yet.
In the end, I was looking for something open and more actively developed. It doesnāt seem like the XRay app has had any new features in at least several months, whereas I can now I can put all of the great ideas folks are throwing out directly into YATTIE and let the community decide what is most useful. (Like Richardās suggestions on improving the reports!)
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@oxygenaddict - Kampsite: Feature Requests, Feedback + Suggestions Board
Itās up next!
Please feel free add any other suggestions you have.
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A new release with reporting summaries, hot off the presses. JIRA integration for quick uploading is next.
Thanks @simon_tomes (and Test Buddy) for the implementation idea! Would you happen to have an example of your old reports? Iām working through a sea of idea for improving reports and trying to distill it down to the most important pieces.
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Sadly I donāt. Perhaps @alg might have some copies that heās open to sharing. Al was a big fan of TestBuddy and helped us shape parts of the product.
That would be super helpful.
@alg - Iād love to hear your experiences with and thoughts about TestBuddy as well if youād be willing to share!
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@dacoaster I can share my experiences & thoughts of using TestBuddy if youād find that helpful.
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Iāll look at giving the latest version of Yattie a whirl in the new year.
Your comment on timelines is interesting. I never added that to Detective Vision as it wasnāt something that interested me. What I wanted was note taking as a starting point with screenshots and being easy to jump back and forth. In both Yattie and XRA I found the timeline to be no more than padding in the report. Perhaps part of that is because a timeline is best to show your journey but what I wanted (and what my team cared about) is the end findings.
Thank you for the offer @alg ! Iād love to hear about how you used the tool and what you found the most valuable!
Simon has also been more than gracious with his feedback and support!
Iāll send you a DM to set something up.
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@oxygenaddict - Iām very excited to hear your feedback.
Re:timelines, I think they are most valuable in three scenarios:
- When you are not as familiar with the product youāre testing. In this case they allow you to retrace your steps when you stumble upon an unexpected issue.
- Mob testing or shared testing scenarios. So everyone can be on the same page and easily share results.
- Training scenarios where a senior tester can review the ātrailā of a more junior tester to provide help/feedback.
So, in some sense, a timeline seems like a āuser friendlyā place to start while working in the tool.
That being said, I also havenāt found it incredibly useful in my quick deep dive testing, so Iāve added an alternate ānotesā view to create something more akin to āI have my Evernote open to stream-of-consciousness record what Iām thinkingā. I actually JUST pushed this today - version 0.2.0 of YATTIE.
Coupled with the Summary at the end, it seems to be an improvement for that style of testingā¦ But Iām keen to iterate on it with more usage and feedback. (Iām also looking to add a āQuick Testā button that skips the Test Charter page to facilitate this type of testing.)
Hi @dacoaster,
Congrats on your progress so far.
Iāve just added YATTIE to the Ministry of Testing Tools Directory.
Care to share whatās next on the roadmap and some of the challenges youāre facing and need help with?
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Thank you @simon_tomes!
Right now weāre working on integrations => JIRA server, TestRail, and GitHub to start, but Iām always interested to hear from folks what would be most helpful for them.
From there, weāll be looking to deepen the integrations and allow for creating new issues/bug reports/test executions/etc from directly inside YATTIE.
Iāve also had a number of conversations with folks around sharing test sessions with team members, so weāll be working on making that easier.
Overall, the community has been incredibly helpful with folks giving detailed feedback and bug reports of course! Anyone looking to help out can just use the tool and let us know what they think. We also have a few ideas listed in our assistance section on GitHub, but feedback, taking our survey, and sharing the tool with others are always top of mind.
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@simon_tomes - Thanks for the suggestion on iconography! Itās been added to v0.6.0 please check it out!
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