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New drop-down menu for a step

Vitaly Melnik

January 12, 2022 18:55

Hello. in 9.4.3 version I noticed that you removed checkboxes and added drop-down option for each step. Current functionality is uncomfortable and it would be good to have some kind of poll to get a public opinion if users would like to keep it or roll back to original functionality. When working with a script which includes lots of steps, it is very uncomfortable to hover over and select each option if I want to skip temporarily steps for debugging. Previously I could do it in few seconds, now I need to go over each step, hover over and select skip which is not visible unless you hover over again. Imaging doing it to 10-50 steps just to debug something that should take few minutes. Now, it takes me about 5-10 minutes to skip those steps. Lots of wasted time.

And I only mentioned skip option. Same issue with other checkboxes or options like add or remove step. I would really appreciate if it would be possible to bring previous functionality back. If you like this new feature a lot, maybe you could add option for users to disable it and be able to use older version?

7 comments

Dominic Luminello January 12, 2022 19:51

I second/agree with you.

Rex Feizi January 13, 2022 02:27

I will reach out to both of you to understand better your use case. Just an FYI we are introducing bulk operations where you select multiple steps and then you skip them altogether. Similar to the bulk delete operation.

Dominic Luminello January 13, 2022 14:13

I think introducing bulk operations would at least alleviate my concerns.

Stephen Akinpelumia January 14, 2022 14:32

hello, I do agree that it is a lot to gte used to doing actions with two steps instead of the previous one; and it is a lot to get used to the blue highlight on steps that have been skipped or have breakpoints when it is not easy to discern the difference unlike before.

I have two users at our organization that have now complained about this change, I think this feature should be optional to individual users to use the individual columns like before or the combined one that we have now. Thanks.

Rex Feizi January 16, 2022 18:05

We very much appreciate the feedback. We had 2 very productive meetings with Vmelink so far. We will provide the details a bit later.

We will reach out to Dominic and Akinpelumia very soon as well.

Thanks

Jonathan Hotz February 03, 2022 20:14

Thank you all for your feedback. We improved the user experience of test script steps in two primary ways to help different types of users, which you should now see in production:

We adjusted the hover menu to increase the target area of all the elements, and included a delay on the menu to prevent it from accidentally opening and from closing too quickly
We extended the bulk tool to include skipping steps, which lets you quickly select multiple steps, or even a range of steps, and skip those
There's a also subtle way to quickly add additional steps - the hover menu doesn't disappear when you add a new step, so you can click that multiple times to add additional steps

We would still like to meet with Dominic and Akinpelumia to better understand you and your team's usage of the tool, and will reach out to find a time to meet.

Dominic Luminello February 04, 2022 14:59

Hi Jonathan,

Allowing bulk updates for skipping steps helps alot as well as the increased time/delay on the hover menu. Appreciate the updates.

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