Release Procedure Notes and Checklist

Release Procedure Checklist

The following checklist consists of my basic notes with procedures and reminders of steps and actions to take when generating a new release of the GW2 Personal Assistant Overlay. This checklist is meant to serve as a guide and reminder of what's involved to generate a release of the overlay.
TODO: This is way too involved of a release process... automate this/make it simpler to make a release build.

• Ensure all changes are committed
• Update Item Names database for each language, commit to source control
• Update assembly versions, commit to source control
• Verify crash report e-mail credentials are added to source code (Do not commit to source control)
• Clean all build output directories
• Clean/Build Release build configuration
• Clean/Build Release_WithoutBrowser build configuration
• Update setup.iss installer build script, commit to source control
• Place pre-generated player tasks files within "Tasks" directory in Release build output directory
• Place pre-generated player tasks files within "Tasks" directory in Release_WithoutBrowser build output directory
• Compile setup.iss installer build script to generate installer for release
• Generate .zip file of Release build output (GW2PAO_[version].zip)
• Generate .zip file of Release_WithoutBrowser build output (GW2PAO_[version]_NoBrowser.zip)
• Perform Smoke Test of Installer (with browser option)
• Perform Smoke Test of Installer (without browser option)
• Perform Smoke Test of Release build .zip
• Perform Smoke Test of Release_NoBrowser build .zip
• Create Release page on GitHub with release notes and release files
• Update GitHub Pages website for release
• Update latest_version.txt with actual .exe assembly version.

Release Smoke Test Procedure

• Events Tracker
  • Verify all world events are displayed
  • Verify "Show Inactive Events", "Show Completed Events", and "Show Waypoint-Code Copy Buttons" options
  • Verify Waypoint-Code Copy
  • Verify Standard vs Adjusted time tables
  • Verify Auto-Detect Completion
• Event Notifications
  • Verify Notifications Duration setting
  • Verify Event-Notification Time setting for 1 or more world events
• WvW Tracker
  • Verify Vertical/Horizontal Orientation
  • Verify Show Distances option and Distance Units
  • Verify Show/Hide of objectives by team and type
  • Verify Sort By options
  • Verify objective names options
  • Verify player-map auto-detection
  • Verify map override options
  • Verify right-click copy options
• WvW Notifications
  • Verify Notifications Duration setting
  • Verify 1 or more notification-selection options
• TP Calculator
  • Verify basic calculation, with non-default buy price, sell price, and quantity
  • Verify reset button
• Ectoplasm Salvage Helper
• Price Tracker
  • Add 2 or more items to track (use recently-added items)
  • Verify basic historical price graphing
  • Verify Upper/Lower limit highlighting
• Price Notifications
  • Verify Buy Order notifications
  • Verify Sell Listing notifications
  • Verify re-display interval setting
  • Verify notifications duration setting
  • Verify copy/paste name and chat-code options
• Dungeons Tracker
  • Verify basic completed/not-completed check-marks
  • Verify 1 or more auto-completion detections
• Dungeons Timer
  • Verify start/stop/pause
  • Verify auto-start/stop
  • Verify best/average time tracking
• Tasks Tracker
  • Verify add task
    • Verify task icon item and custom URL
    • Verify description
    • Verify Can Complete on/off
    • Verify Include Location on/off
    • Verify Waypoint Code
  • Verify edit task
  • Verify sort setting
  • Verify distance units setting
  • Verify show completed tasks setting
  • Verify show tasks not on current map setting
  • Verify distance/direction display
  • Verify Load of tasks .xml file
  • Verify Import of tasks .xml file
  • Verify Export of tasks .xml file
• Zone Completion Assistant
  • Verify basic distance/direction usage across 2 or more in-game maps
  • Verify automatic unlock for 1 or more map objectives
  • Verify show/hide of map objective types setting
• Teamspeak Overlay
  • Verify basic voice chat talk display
  • Verify show/hide of channel box
  • Verify show/hide of chat entry box
  • Verify show/hide of enter/exit notifications
  • Verify channel switch
  • Verify channel client list popup
  • Verify ability to send chats
• Web Browser (if included)
  • Verify basic usage of GW2 Wiki
  • Verify transparency slider
  • Verify refresh button
  • Verify 1 or more bookmarks
  • Verify ability to create new bookmarks
• General Settings
  • Verify Show Notification Borders on/off
  • Verify Auto-Fade Window Borders on/off
  • Verify Non-Interactive Windows on/off
  • Verify Overlay Menu Icon on/off
  • Verify Auto-Hide Overlay Menu Icon when GW2 not running on/off
  • Verify Auto-Hide Overlay Menu Icon when GW2 loses focus on/off
  • Verify Auto-Hide All Windows when GW2 not running on/off
  • Verify Auto-Hide All Windows when GW2 loses focus on/off
• Hotkeys
  • Verify ability to create 1 or more hotkeys
  • Verify ability to remove hotkeys
  • Verify hotkey persistence (close application, start application)
  • Verify functionality of 1 or more hotkeys
• Languages
  • Verify ability to select English and display of basic strings
  • Verify ability to select Spanish and display of basic strings
  • Verify ability to select French and display of basic strings
  • Verify ability to select German and display of basic strings
  • Verify ability to select Russian and display of basic strings
• Miscellaneous
  • Verify About window for correctness
  • Verify Logging on/off and generation of logs
  • Verify Help link in menu
  • Verify ability to move the Overlay Menu Icon
  • Verify basic open/close of application with several overlay utilities open