RC Test: Balancing Act 1.2.0-rc.1 PhET-iO

[chrisklus]

@KatieWoe, @ariel-phet, @kathy-phet, balancing-act/1.2.0-rc.1 is ready for RC testing.

This is a test for specific features that we're sending to a client, not an actual standard RC test. It also only includes PhET-iO, and is not a fully instrumented version of the sim. Per the query parameters included in the wrapper links, only the second screen needs to be tested, and with the query parameter stanford. For these reasons, much of the typical RC template has been omitted.

We're trying to deliver this to the client by the end of the week, so this is a high priority test.

Please document issues in https://github.com/phetsims/balancing-act/issues and link to this issue.

Assigning to @ariel-phet for prioritization.

PhET-iO RC Test

Focus and Special Instructions

• Please do thorough testing of the standalone version with this link:
  • standalone
• Please test the record and playback wrapper locally with these links:
  • record
  • playback
• Please do a Metacog cycle test with this link:
  • login

Here are the requests from the client that we implemented for this version:

• Remove “People” from the simulated object box.
• Limit the weight options of the bricks to 5kg, 10kg and 20kg.
• It should say "setup" and "test"
• When in "test" cannot move objects
• Record log data of student actions
• Have mystery boxes with the weights that are different from the weights of all the bricks.
• Supply new values for the mystery weights

Link(s)

• Wrapper Index
• Test Matrix

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[ariel-phet]

@KatieWoe concurrent top priority with #471

[KatieWoe]

• macOS 10.12 Safari
  • standalone
  • record
  • playback
  • login
• macOS 10.12 Chrome
  • standalone
  • record
  • playback
  • login
• iPad iOS 13 Safari (No Studio)
  • standalone
  • login
• macOS 10.15 Safari
  • standalone
  • record
  • playback
  • login
• macOS 10.15 Firefox
  • standalone
  • record
  • playback
  • login ❌
• macOS 10.15 Chrome
  • standalone
  • record
  • playback
  • login
• Win 10 (laptop) Edge
  • standalone
  • record
  • playback
  • login
• Win 10 (laptop) Chrome
  • standalone
  • record
  • playback
  • login
• Win 10 (laptop) Firefox
  • standalone
  • record
  • playback
  • login ❌
• Win 10 (laptop) IE (No Studio)
  • standalone
  • record ❌
  • playback ❌
  • login ❌
• Chromebook Chrome (latest)
  • standalone
  • record
  • playback
  • login

[ghost]

Linking https://github.com/phetsims/studio/issues/92 since it affects this sim.

[KatieWoe]

phetsims/balancing-act#43 may happen here, but it is quite hard to tell.

[samreid]

Where there is a ❌next to "login", which issue (or issues) does that refer to?

[KatieWoe]

@samreid https://github.com/phetsims/phet-io-wrappers/issues/320

[KatieWoe]

This known issue: https://github.com/phetsims/phet-io-wrappers/issues/278. Is present with metacog on iPads.

[KatieWoe]

QA is done. Issues linked or discussed above.

[samreid]

@zepumph and I reviewed the referenced issues and agreed this is ready to share with our client, but we will mention that it may not work on Chromebooks and there may be problems if you interact with an object while it's animating.

[KatieWoe]

QA is done. Some uncertainty in metacog discussed in phetsims/balancing-act#114. Not sure what causes it or the platform. Other issues linked above.

[chrisklus]

In phetsims/balancing-act#115 the phet-io team cherry picked the fix for https://github.com/phetsims/studio/issues/92 and published 1.2.1.

Can we close @samreid @zepumph?

[samreid]

I'd like to leave this open until I have a chance to triage all the opened issues, if that's OK. But if that interferes with the QA issues, let me know and I'll find another way.

[zepumph]

There look to be three BA specific issues from this QA:
phetsims/balancing-act#112
phetsims/balancing-act#95
phetsims/balancing-act#113

All other open issues have GFL linked to it, and will be covered by that RC process.

[pixelzoom]

This issue sent me on a wild-goose chase related to phetsims/joist#624, trying to identify affected sims that were in dev/RC testing. I see 2 additional RCs (1.2.0-rc.2, 1.2.0-rc.3, with no QA issues) and 3 published version (1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2) on phet-dev. Can someone please document what happened here, and (if appropriate) close this issue?

[samreid]

This sim was published and shared with the client. Closing.