Masses and Springs: Basics Main checklist

[Denz1994]

Design

• Sim folder and design doc created (Date: 06/28/18)
  • Create sim folder in PhET Sim Design Folder using phet-docs account
  • Place design doc in the sim folder
• Sim suggestions doc reviewed suggestions doc
• Learning goals and standards identified (Date: 07/05/18)
• Design concept complete (Date: 07/12/18)
• Wireframes complete (Date: 07/05/18)
• Mockups complete (Date: 10/05/18)
  • Mockups checked for colorblind and greyscale
• Features for PhET-iO discussion
• Interviews complete (Date: 01/03/2019)
  • Results reported to team
  • Notes pasted into design doc
  • Back-up of interviews
• Lead designer "sign off" (Date: 10/26/2018)
  • Performance acceptable
  • Carefully review ?showPointerAreas
  • No new feature requests
• Pre-publication items
  • Auxiliary screenshots (up to 3 additional)
  • Accessories (keywords, categories, description, learning goals, related sims, NSDL)
  • Teacher Guide created, uploaded, and added to sim design folder
  • Add an activity
  • Sim primer draft
  • LoL icons for each screen created and uploaded to Drive
  • LoL metadata for each screen (description, vocab words, questions for before/after sim use)
• Post-publication items
  • Share new features, design challenges, and treats with group!
  • Add to Edmodo
  • Add to Gooru (signed in as phethelp)
  • Deliver to Legends of Learning
  • Sim primer (create issue, publish ideally within 1 month of live sim)
  • N/A Hold postmortem if applicable (Date: //)

Implementation

• Repository created (Date: 10/01/2018)
  • Simulation added to responsible_dev.md
  • Use grunt create-sim in perennial (see --help for arguments) to create the repository structure
  • Collaborators added (Developer team, QA team, designers, etc)
  • standard GitHub label set applied
  • repository added to perennial/data/active-repos
• Development started (Date: 09/30/18)
• Sim is "feature complete" (Date: 11/09/18)
• Code review completed (Date: 01/30/2019)
• Pre-publication items
  • Main screenshot (1536x1008, PNG, 32-bit color, browser chrome stripped)
  • Verify credits
• Published (Date: 03/22/2019)
  • Mark the sim as published in responsible_dev.md

QA

• Dev testing started (Date: 11/12/2018)
• Dev testing completed (Date: 12/21/2018)
• First RC published (Date: 02/1/2019)
  • Test matrices put in Testing Matrices Folder
• RC testing completed (Date: 03/22/2019)

[Denz1994]

Credits verified here. This was the last issue open for RC testing as well.

[Denz1994]

RC testing finished. See phetsims/qa#296 (comment)