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In this sprint, our team made significant strides in enhancing the application's infrastructure, performance, and error reporting capabilities to ensure greater stability and scalability. Key highlights included:
Operations &. Maintenance:
Upgraded core dependencies to improve performance and security.
Refined error reporting to provide more accurate and actionable insights for end users.
Application Health Monitoring:
Conducted load testing to validate the system's capacity to handle high traffic.
Roadmap Progress
[OMITTED] This will be included in future sprint summaries.
Tasks
User Experience Improvements
Task
Value Proposition
Status
#2699 - Refine labels and text for Data Files search controls
Enhances the user experience on the Data Files page by clarifying required fields through updated labels and text, ensuring users can easily identify mandatory inputs and reducing potential form submission errors.
QASP REVIEW
#2873 - Simplify invalid file extension error message and add Knowledge Center link
Improves user clarity by simplifying the error message for invalid file extensions and providing direct access to detailed guidance, reducing confusion and enhancing compliance with file upload requirements.
QASP REVIEW
#2175 - Fix download button disappearance after click
Improves the user experience by ensuring the download button remains visible and functional, enhancing accessibility and usability for repeated downloads without unnecessary behavior changes.
QASP REVIEW
Improved Developer Tooling
Please note: #3223 - Automate buildpack states via Terraform was not completed, as the time required to complete the work outweighed the relative benefit of completion.
Enhanced the team's ability to manage and track CloudFoundry deployments more effectively, improving state visibility, reducing unnecessary redeployments, and ensuring better control over infrastructure, while maintaining seamless integration with CircleCI and updating relevant documentation.
Streamlines and simplifies the reparse logic by creating a shared utility function, improving maintainability and enabling more customizable parsing behavior for both the admin and management commands.
Provides valuable user insights through finalized research synthesis and findings, guiding the development of the FRA MVP while ensuring stakeholder alignment, accessibility, and actionable outcomes for future development.
QASP REVIEW
#3397 - Add FRA report types to DataFile model and implement reparsing logic
Enables the system to accurately process and display new FRA report types, ensuring the integrity of reporting workflows and facilitating seamless updates for enhanced analysis and decision-making.
QASP REVIEW
#3398 - Implement FRA report selection and upload interface
Enables users to select and upload new FRA report types for a given fiscal quarter, streamlining the data entry process and ensuring accurate reporting for the "Work Outcomes for TANF Exiters" section.
IN PROGRESS & MOVED TO NEXT SPRINT
#3399 - Implement feature flag for controlled access to FRA Data Files page
Allows pilot data analyst users to access and interact with the FRA Data Files page via a feature flag, enabling controlled access and feedback before broader deployment while ensuring proper role-based access for OFA users.
IN PROGRESS & MOVED TO NEXT SPRINT
Application Health Monitoring
Task
Value Proposition
Status
#2346 - As tech lead, I want to load test our application
Ensured that the backend infrastructure is adequately stress-tested for scalability, identify any performance bottlenecks under heavy concurrent load, and provide actionable insights for optimizing system capacity to handle large file uploads.
Ensured that the project is using the latest stable versions of react-scripts and file-type, addressing potential breaking changes and improving overall stability and functionality while maintaining compatibility and compliance with modern standards.
COMPLETE
#3341 - Move Cat 2 and Cat 3 errors from aggregate and stratum to critical worksheet
Improved the accuracy and relevance of error reporting by ensuring critical data integrity errors are correctly elevated to the Critical worksheet, while also excluding specific non-critical errors, thereby enhancing data oversight and decision-making.
COMPLETE
#3342 - Deprecate Cat 4 validation checks for case closure
Streamlines the data validation process by deprecating unnecessary checks, improving the accuracy of case file feedback for OFA, and ensuring that records can be properly stored and analyzed in the database.
QASP REVIEW
#3328 - Resolve vulnerabilities in frontend dependencies after React upgrade
Resolves critical and high-severity vulnerabilities identified in the project, ensuring improved security and stability while documenting and addressing any unresolved issues for future resolution.
Ensures that the release notes and knowledge center updates are properly drafted, tested, and communicated to STTs, providing them with clear and accessible information on the latest updates and changes.
QASP REVIEW
#2854 - Investigate solutions for handling encoding errors during file upload and parsing
Enahnces the system's ability to detect and handle encoding issues early in the file upload process, improving error messaging and ensuring smoother file processing for users.
IN PROGRESS & MOVED TO NEXT SPRINT
OFA Regional Staff UI MVP
Task
Value Proposition
Status
#3262 - [Design Ideation] Regional Staff UI: Submission Status and Missing Submissions
Delivers testable UI concepts for regional staff, ensuring that the design meets user needs for monitoring submission statuses while adhering to accessibility standards, providing a foundation for future development and user validation.