Brightest Week 8: Detailed Documentation, Introduction Video & Quality of Life Upgrades
Overview
This week was entirely dedicated to making our project future-proof, with emphasis on extensive documentation, user convenience, and preparing the project for further development by future colleagues at Brightest.
Week Overview📋📊
This week was entirely dedicated to making our project future-proof, with emphasis on extensive documentation, user convenience, and preparing the project for further development by future colleagues at Brightest.
Monday & Tuesday: Documentation as if it Were Open Source📚💻
I started the week by writing very detailed documentation for our internal project. My goal was to record everything as extensively and clearly as if it were an open source project. Although we're not making the project publicly available, I wanted future developers at Brightest to be able to get started with it quickly, even after my internship period. Our renewed README.md now contains: a clear introduction to the application and its purpose, detailed installation instructions and configuration guidelines, and extensive documentation about the technologies, frameworks, and architectural choices used. Additionally, I also created an introduction video that I uploaded privately to YouTube. This video is only accessible via direct links from the README and a new welcome page within our application. The video offers future users and colleagues a clear introduction to the main functions and how the app works. The result is documentation that feels as if you're entering a professionally maintained open source project, which makes further development much easier and more accessible for my successors.
Wednesday & Thursday: Test Flow Manager Upgrades & UI Tweaks🎛️🔧
Midweek, I shifted my focus to further improving the user experience of the Test Flow Manager. One specific need I addressed was allowing multiple identical test methods within one flow, with each method having separate input values. To make this possible, I: gave each method a unique ID, so the same method can be saved multiple times with different values and remains clearly separated, and optimized how the data is stored and loaded from our internal JSON database, ensuring better performance and stability. Additionally, I made some subtle but impactful UI adjustments: clearer visual distinctions between active methods and their input values, improved feedback for user actions such as adding or modifying methods, and better overall layout, allowing users to navigate through their test flows more quickly and efficiently. This reduces confusion, minimizes errors, and provides a pleasant user experience in daily use of the application.
Friday: Finishing Touches, Video Integration & Reflection🎥🔗
Friday was mainly focused on fine-tuning the documentation and integrating the created video within our new welcome page. I made sure that all links work, instructions are clear, and that the overall presentation is professional and user-friendly. Additionally, I reflected again on the importance of good internal documentation. Although our project is not publicly accessible, it is essential that colleagues can get started independently with minimal additional guidance after my departure.
Reflection & Future Perspective💡📈
This week felt like a crucial step in maturing the project. I learned a lot about the importance of detailed documentation and clear user experience, especially in a context where knowledge transfer and responsibility are important. Next week, I'll pay extra attention to any feedback from colleagues to ensure that everything is truly ready to be handed over seamlessly to future developers within Brightest. It was again a productive week, in which I gained a lot of satisfaction from ensuring a sustainable future for our project within Brightest.
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