Software Development Notes

Updated July 20, 2011

User testing on Version 6 revealed that the site's ingredient data is not extensive enough to reliably allow effortless recipe entry.

This will be addressed by the following features over the next few months:

• Simplified initial recipe entry
• Ability to add personal recipe ingredients

Releases

Version 7

Release Date: July 20, 2011

Purpose of Release: Improved publishing capabilities

New Features:

• infrastructure to allow for weekly articles
• improved main page for new users
• some further data clean-up

Version 6

Release Date: May 27, 2011

Purpose of Release: Enhanced Nutrition Information

New Features:

• improved user control over profile, preferences and contact info
• support for more units in nutrition calculations
• nutrition info on a per serving basis
• notification of missing unit support in nutrition calculations
• easy access to the recipe lists of other users
• added feedback email address
• improved layout and graphics
• improved error feedback for forms

Version 5

Release Date: April 29, 2011

Purpose of Release: Usability Enhancements

New Features:

• added pop-up help text on the recipe and pasted recipe forms
• highlighted required fields on forms
• improved readability of registration page
• added some additional common units and ingredients
• added hyperlinks to useful pages in error messages
• improved tolerances for variable inputs (capitals, white space, etc.)

Version 4

Release Date: March 29, 2011

Purpose of Release: Tuning Nutrient and Ingredient Info

New Features:

• added more commonly used ingredient names
• added new nutrients
• improved performance of pasted recipe view
• improved readability and flow
• added nutrition label for recipes
• readability improvements

Version 3

Release Date: February 25th, 2011

Purpose of Release: Add nutrition data to the site

New Features:

• initial master ingredients list
• nutrition data for all ingredients
• detailed documentation of raw text usage
• GUI readability and usability improvements
• ingredient search functionality

Version 2

Release Date: January 27th, 2011

Purpose of Release: Finalize base recipe entry functionality

New Features:

• official ingredients and units list
• improved readability of pasted recipes form and main page
• detailed documentation of raw text usage
• increased ability of pasted recipes form to handle variable input formats
• my_recipes page
• readability improvements

Major Defects Repaired:

• inability of recipe and pasted recipes forms to handle multi-paragraph input

Version 1

Release Date: December 24th, 2010

Purpose of Release: Alpha launch of recipe entry functionality

New Features:

• recipe entry form
• pasted recipe entry form
• authorization and authentication system