Adapt Learning Community: Test Bench idea

Hi everyone,

During the time I've been working with Adapt on live projects (mostly styling/ui) I have often needed to quickly test things or find out some kind of information when fixing bugs. For example is the course menu showing the correct information on course completion? Are the results screens showing the correct styling appropriate to the feedback?

I was wondering what everyone's thoughts were of building a test bench plugin for Adapt? It could be enabled by setting a "dev" mode to true in the JSON config. This would bring up a panel that allows quick access to common tests, it could also show helpful information.

Some examples:

Setting course/page to complete/not complete - a number of scenarios this could be useful
Show Bandwidth - useful for planning the impact of media rich courses on the client's setup
Show UserAgent details - catching stuff like ie9 going into ie7 compatibilty mode
Quick Navigation - helpful for courses that have step-locked content
Safe Mode - removes all CSS/images etc

I think the test bench would also be quite useful for QA teams and supporting clients with issues.

I understand most of us here could use the console to test these things, but I think a tool to quickly test/view important information would be really useful.

Thanks

Sal

Hey,

I think this is a great idea and this has been passed around for a while. I'd see this as an extension that you can install/add. This way Adapt core is small and lightweight and the testing extension can be removed on production ready code.

I think all the above examples are great. Would be nice to have a pull out testing bar that contained a list of features - so it would be a simple 'activate' button that switches each one on.