[aerogear-dev] UnifiedPush Server 1.1.0-beta.1

Matthias Wessendorf matzew at apache.org
Tue May 26 04:40:15 EDT 2015


Hi,

thanks for the testing. Looks like we are good to go w/ the beta.1 release.
Like Lukas already asked, are you able to create a few JIRAs to capture the
issues on the UI ?

Thanks

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Lukáš Fryč <lukas.fryc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Tadeas,
>
> that's wonderful feedback!
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Tadeas Kriz <tkriz at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> UnifiedPush Server 1.1.0-beta.1 testing report
>>
>> Hello there again,
>>
>> so I have tested the UPS using the UI console, iOS 8.0 and Android 5.1. I
>> have used the HelloPush example as to me it seems the best for testing the
>> server and messaging.
>>
>> I have not tested the Windows, SimplePush and Amazon. The Simple Push was
>> tested in the automated integration tests, but that does not apply for
>> Windows and Amazon as we do not have the test cases for those. I also could
>> not test them manually because I do not have Windows nor Amazon developer
>> accounts.
>>
>> I have tortured the Admin UI quite thoroughly and it did really well.
>> There were some bugs and some UX quirks that I suggest we fix into the next
>> beta release.
>> Kudos for:
>>
>>    - Absolutely f***ing awesome wizard in the UnifiedPush Server Admin
>>    UI. I have loved every step of it and what totally amazed me was that when
>>    I deployed the app on the device and the app registered itself to the UPS,
>>    the wizard automagically progreessed to the next step! That is so damn
>>    awesome and the UX is just wonderful.
>>       - It was so great that I (as a user) would not mind if it was
>>       shown also when creating another variants in an application that already
>>       has some, because it makes it more friendly and gives the feedback when the
>>       first registration is successful.
>>    - It is also great that the user does not need to click on a link to
>>    keep logged in and only focusing the window is enough. Thanks for that.
>>    - iOS HelloPush example is Swift 1.2 ready!
>>    - Very nice error reporting in iOS HelloPush example (I set the URL
>>    wrong and the app told me about registration issue)
>>
>> Found bugs
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    When sending push message using the UI, the following can happen:
>>    1. Check one or more variants in the variants list
>>       2. Uncheck all of the variants (this will leave you in the same
>>       visual state as it was before step 1.)
>>       3. Send the message
>>       4. Wonder why it was not sent to any of the devices
>>
>>    It seems that when I open the dialog, it shows *No variants*, but it
>>    really means *All variants*. However when I check some variants and
>>    then uncheck them all, it will still say *No variants*, but now it
>>    really means it as *No variants*. My suggestion is to start with
>>    having all the variants checked and instead of listing them all separated
>>    by commas, we should show*All variants*.
>>    -
>>
>>    For some strange reason there is a lot of space in the bottom and I
>>    can scroll away all the content.
>>    - There are *?* help icons/buttons in the lower-right corners [5] in
>>    the analytics panel, but they do not do or show anything.
>>    - In the variant list it still shows *0 delivered*[7] even when I
>>    already sent and delivered messages.
>>    - In *Sender API* tab there is always *Set up Java UPS* on top of the
>>    other sender platform (see [2, 3, 4])
>>    - Clicking the *Read more* about master secret and push app id
>>    security [8] leads to */ag-push/#* (and somehow corrupts the history
>>    and I could not hit back button).
>>    - Search in PushApplication list does not work (and I am not sure if
>>    it is necessary as there should not be that many apps).
>>
>> UI/UX Quirks
>>
>>    - Variant creation dialog wraps text when there is a lot of space [1].
>>    - The area between number of devices and *edit* button shows the
>>    *hand* cursor, but it is not clickable. I would suggest to make it
>>    clickable and the action would be expanding/collapsing the variant detail.
>>    - The *+*/*-* button for expanding/collapsing the statistics does not
>>    show *hand* cursor when mouse is above it.
>>    - In the top right corner of the window, there is the *warnings* information,
>>    however it is strange when there are no warnings so I would suggest one of
>>    these:
>>       1. Do not show it in the bar altogether when there are no warnings
>>       2. Disable the *clickability* of it when there are no warnings
>>       3. When the popup is shown, it should not be just an empty box[6],
>>       but should show something like *No warnings*
>>    - When hitting the *Edit* variant button, it shows a dialog where I
>>    can change only the name of the variant. However when I click the*Change
>>    network options* button, I am presented with the possibility to
>>    change both the name of the variant and the network specific configuration.
>>    I would therefore suggest to not show the name field in the *Change
>>    network options* dialog as it is not considered a good practise to
>>    have two ways of doing the same thing in UI.
>>    - It is a bit strange that when I hover over the *copy* (sources) in
>>    variant detail, the *edit* and delete buttons disappear until I move
>>    the mouse away from the *copy*.
>>    - Links to *Android*, *Chrome*, *iOS*, *Cordova* etc. in variant
>>    detail should open the documentation in a new tab like the rest of
>>    documentation links. Now it opens in the same app which is not good because
>>    the user wants to stay in the Admin UI.
>>    - When I click on the *in the documentation* link on the *no variants* screen,
>>    I get redirected correcly, but it takes a while for the images to load and
>>    it pushes the content away and I lose track where was the help I came for.
>>    I would suggest to set the dimensions into the <img> tags therefore it will
>>    not push the screen away, but simply load into the empty space.
>>
>> This is aerogear.org bug, could you report that?
>
>>
>>    - Each time the user wants to do a destructive action (i.e. *deleting
>>    application*, *deleting variant*,*reseting master secret*) he should
>>    be presented with a dialog in which he would have to type the name of the
>>    *variant*or *application* in order to continue. This was already in
>>    before and I am not sure why was it removed.
>>
>>  We have discussed this with Andres and he believes it is unnecessary
> from UX PoV: clicking big red button should be enough. :-)
>
> But since this is re-occuring report to the new UI, we should probably
> rethink that and introduce confirmation back.
>
>> Questions
>>
>>    - I am not sure what *x receivers / y opened* means as well as the
>>    meaning of *first time opened* and*last time opened*.
>>    - Is there a way to access the list of registered installations as it
>>    was before? Should it?
>>    - In analytics there are *Push opens* statistics. Does that mean
>>    there is some new API in UnifiedPush Server? If so should we test it? If so
>>    how?
>>
>> Yes, all these are related to the new Analytics - push notification sent
> to devices / devices opened metric.
>
>> One more thing
>>
>> It would be great if we implemented documentation versioning similar to
>> readthedocs.org <http://www.readthedocs.org/>. That way there could be
>> more versions of the documentation hosted on the aerogear.org
>> <http://www.aerogear.org/> site and each version of UnifiedPush Server
>> Admin UI could point to the specific version. It would lead to better user
>> experience because they would see the documentation exactly for their
>> version.
>>
>
> Something what we could consider is hosting generated documentation in
> version-prefixed directories, such as here:
> http://docs.jboss.org/richfaces/
>
> This is probably worth separated thread.
>
>
>> All taken into consideration the team did a great job on the 1.1.0 and
>> even though it is still just beta.1, it is working very well. Thanks guys!
>>
>> PS: Sorry for the order of images, it is 3 am and I was too tired to
>> reorganize them. Also I did not yet create any JIRA tickets for the bugs. I
>> just wanted to share the report with you guys so we can discuss which of
>> the items will be moved into the JIRA as tickets and which are not
>> important or would me marked as "won't fix".
>>
>
>
> @Tadeas: could I ask you to report the bugs in one or two JIRAs (+ JIRAs
> specific to aerogear.org, such as page scrolling issue)? Let's report
> them in a bulk and assigned to me, I will split them as necessary into
> subtasks.
>
>> Thanks,
>> Tadeas Kriz
>>
>> 1 -
>> https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-OHKxiXEIT88/VV6DvB0uRKI/AAAAAAAAX5I/a-m6umCfZUo/w593-h758-no/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-05-22%2Bat%2B12.14.05%2Bam.png
>> 2 -
>> https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-KzruF4kzwj4/VV6Dyuu1kxI/AAAAAAAAX5o/RFuCFGzxtXo/w1192-h512-no/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-05-22%2Bat%2B1.27.53%2Bam.png
>> 3 -
>> https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZAlJzi51BX0/VV6Dx1J3SxI/AAAAAAAAX5k/UQiql9TMye4/w1187-h571-no/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-05-22%2Bat%2B1.27.58%2Bam.png
>> 4 -
>> https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-LHyvZPW5AzI/VV6DxSuf-yI/AAAAAAAAX5c/bi9eJaQ6RLc/w1199-h491-no/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-05-22%2Bat%2B1.28.04%2Bam.png
>> 5 -
>> https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-A-dpKMM4IcU/VV6D1WjHp5I/AAAAAAAAX54/XeQC-2KUqVg/w373-h146-no/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-05-22%2Bat%2B1.12.15%2Bam.png
>> 6 -
>> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dU4Weqwf5as/VV6D2OFf-II/AAAAAAAAX6A/T5CDLREzT-w/w277-h83-no/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-05-22%2Bat%2B1.09.51%2Bam.png
>> 7 -
>> https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-q_0F21tJZgo/VV6Dz4jZJPI/AAAAAAAAX5w/ngGABCT_AUM/w320-h316-no/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-05-22%2Bat%2B1.19.53%2Bam.png
>> 8 -
>> https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-57qlJTvJEBI/VV6Dwg3i0SI/AAAAAAAAX5Q/KPQxgw1DS0w/w644-h63-no/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-05-22%2Bat%2B1.28.56%2Bam.png
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Tadeas Kriz <tkriz at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I've just run integration tests and the UnifiedPush Server works great.
>>> One huge downside is the change that breaks the API of Java Sender and that
>>> the API is currently in somehow inconsistent state (it is synchronous, but
>>> it uses callback to deliver the `success` state and throws exception to
>>> deliver the `failed` state).
>>>
>>> Now I'm going to proceed with the real-device testing.
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> NEVERMIND, see
>>>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/pull/568 for
>>>> details
>>>>
>>>> staging stays, and we continue w/ 1.1.0 of Keycloak
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <
>>>> matzew at apache.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> please give it a spin, so that I can merege it, in order to actually
>>>>> do the re-staging
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <
>>>>> mwessendorf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> we need to re-stage, due to this bug:
>>>>>> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server/pull/568
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <
>>>>>> mwessendorf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> after month of work, here is the first beta release for the UPS
>>>>>>> 1.1.0. It contains more features and inprovements around UI, JMS for
>>>>>>> enhanced scalability and a lot of other stuff:
>>>>>>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH/fixforversion/12326579
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please test the staged release:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/jboss_releases_staging_profile-5605/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Like w/ the previous alpha.2, please make sure you use a full
>>>>>>> profile WildFly or EAP server for tests, since we now have JMS hooks ;-)
>>>>>>> (See README for details)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wednesday I'd like to press the button to release it to the wild.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> PS: Since this is the first beta release we won't yet be updating
>>>>>>> our Openshift cartridge - that will stay on 1.0.3 (stable) for a little
>>>>>>> longer time. For the next release (beta.2) in a few weeks we may get to
>>>>>>> this Openshift update.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Matthias
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Matthias Wessendorf
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Matthias Wessendorf
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Matthias Wessendorf
>>>>>
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>>>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Matthias Wessendorf
>>>>
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>>
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