Membrane Channels main checklist

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Membrane Channels main checklist

Design

• Sim folder and design doc created (Date: 01/27/2024)
  • Create sim folder
    in PhET Sim Design Folder using phet-docs
    account
  • Place design doc in the sim folder
• Review user feedback
  • If a
    Port: Google Form suggestions reviewed
• Learning goals and standards identified (Date: 11/30/2024)
• Design concept complete (Date: 12/18/2024)
• Wireframes complete (Date: 02/01/2025)
• Mockups complete (Date: //)
  • Mockups checked for colorblind and greyscale
• Features for PhET-iO discussion
• Interviews complete (Date: //)
  • Results reported to team
  • Notes pasted into design doc
  • Back-up of interviews
• Lead designer "sign off" (Date: //)
  • Performance acceptable
  • Carefully review ?showPointerAreas
  • No new feature requests
• Prototype items
  • Auxiliary screenshots (at least 1 additional)
  • Accessories (keywords, categories, description, learning goals, related sims, NSDL) as appropriate
  • Email/Twitter announcement language
  • Teacher Guide created, uploaded, and added to sim design folder
  • Send Simulation Notification from the Admin page (to alert translators)
• Pre-publication items
  • Auxiliary screenshots (up to 3 additional)
  • Screen-specific screenshots for metadata service (
    see naming convention)
  • Accessories (keywords, categories, description, learning goals, related sims, NSDL)
  • Accessibility features
  • Draft the Email announcement language
  • Teacher Guide created, uploaded, and added to sim design folder
  • LoL icons for each
    screen created and uploaded to Drive
  • LoL metadata
    for each screen (description, vocab words, questions for before/after sim use)
• Make sim visible on website
  • Clear "Metadata caches" on
    the Basic Administration Caches
    page
• Post-publication items
  • If a Port: Review legacy gold star activities. For appropriate activities, tag the HTML5 version and UNTAG the deprecated version.
  • Share new features, design challenges, and treats with group!
  • Email announcement
  • Deliver
    to Legends of Learning
  • Create "sim primer" issue
  • Decide as a team if a postmortem is applicable, and schedule (Date: //)
  • Send Simulation Notification from the Admin page (to alert translators)

Inclusive Features

• Alternative Input (Started: 01/01/2025 ) (Completed: )
  • Organize interactions in the order of pedagogical importance within the PDOM's Play Area and Control Area.
  • Create screen-specific Keyboard Shortcuts dialogs. Ai template
• Sound & Sonification (Completed: )
  • Sound design requirements determined: date: //
  • Sound design complete: date: //
  • UI Sounds implemented: date: //
  • All sounds implemented: date: //
• Essential Description
  • Accessible names implemented: date: //
• Interactive Description - (link to description design & implementation checklist)
  • Description design complete (Started: ) (Completed: )
  • Development complete (Started: ) (Completed: )
  • Mobile description included

Implementation

• Repository created by
  following new-repo-checklist.md (
  Date: 12/19/2024)
• Development started (Date: Feb 2025)
• Sim is "feature complete" (Date: //)
• QA team "first look" (Date: //)
• Interviews may happen around here (see above)
• Sim team sign-off (Date: //)
• Code review completed (Date: //)
• Sim dev test completed (Date: //)
• Sim RC tests completed (Date: //)
• Pre-publication items
  • Main screenshot (read this)
  • Verify credits with lead (Team, Contributors, QA, Graphic Arts, Sound Design, any Thanks -
    see conventions)
  • Add CT tests for public query parameters that need testing. See examples
    in listContinuousTests.js
• Published (Date: //)

QA

• If a Port: Legacy sim tested for bugs; issues reported in repo
• Dev testing started (Date: //)
• Dev testing completed (Date: //)
• First RC published (Date: //)
  • Test matrices put
    in Testing Matrices Folder
• RC testing completed (Date: //)