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Version 17 includes several new features and a number of bug fixes: What's new in version 17? Our testing targeted those new features and improvements to ensure they worked correctly, and to check if they impacted existing Lawmaker functionality in any way Every new feature and bug fix has been tested to ensure that is works as expected and does not adversely impact any existing Lawmaker functionality.
Tests were performed using a combination of newly created documents, documents imported from legislation.gov.uk, and existing real-world documents copied from the Production environment.
To test UK Bills functionality, we used the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill, Renters' Reform Bill, and Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, along with the corresponding tabled amendments to those bills. Version 17 introduces a new feature which makes it possible to download and upload large lists of amendments to a bill version for testing; we made use of this new feature to perform tests on those bills using large numbers of real-world amendments.
We also imported UK Act content from legislation.gov.uk to test performance on large documents, including the Energy Act 2023 and Online Safety Act 2023.
See below for more information on the specific testing outcomes related to new features and bug fixes in version 17.
Automatic tagging of references
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We checked that the new reference toolbar had no effect on the performance of the Editor when opening larger documents.
User feedback testing on Staging helped us to identify an issue with the appearance and layout of the ‘Edit ref’ modal on smaller screens. We intend to fix this in the next minor Lawmaker release.
Generation of citation footnotes in SIs
Ticket reference | Testing result | Description | Notes |
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LDAPP-4241 | Pass | Investigate and design auto-generation of citation footnotes | |
LDAPP-4385 | Pass | Generate amending statements | |
LDAPP-4389 | Pass | Retrieve amending infomation for rrefs | |
LDAPP-4388 | Pass | UI - Insert a footnote for an individual reference or group of references | |
LDAPP-4386 | Pass | Merge amending statements into a single citation footnote | |
LDAPP-4446 | Pass | Handle edge cases in parsing textual amendments with malformed amended provisions | |
LDAPP-4472 | Pass | Fix capitalisation of provisions and presentation of SI titles in citation footnotes |
Version 17 gives users the ability to automatically generate citation footnotes in SIs. We checked the content and format of these auto-generated footnotes using a large number of real SI documents imported from legislation.gov.uk.
Improved sorting of amendments on the Amendment Manager tab
Ticket reference | Testing result | Description | Notes |
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LDAPP-4448 | Pass | Rework OoC sort function so it sorts amendments correctly - Back End | |
LDAPP-4410 | Pass | Rework OoC sort function so it sorts amendments correctly - Front End |
Version 17 replaces the ‘OoC Sort’ button on the Amendment Manager tab with a ‘Sort by Marshalled Order’ button that correctly sorts amendments in the table according to the order in which they will appear in official lists. We tested the new sorting using Commons, Lords, and Scottish Parliamentary Parliament amendments, and ensured that the ordering logic was correct. We also tested using large numbers of real amendments imported from the Production environment.
Quoted text
Ticket reference | Testing result | Description | Notes |
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LDAPP-4404 | Pass | Inserting Quoted Text in Editor and CSS | |
LDAPP-4405 | Pass | Changing quote marks in Quoted Text via modal | |
LDAPP-4432 | Pass | Adjust Quoted Text formatting | |
LDAPP-4407 | Pass | Handling Quoted Text in PDFs | |
LDAPP-4457 | Pass | Allow insertion of a Quoted Structure when cursor is in a Quoted Text element | |
LDAPP-4433 | Pass | Fix duplicate //mod issue when inserting a Quoted Text or Quoted Structure outside a //mod | |
LDAPP-4453 | Pass | Quoted text causes line numbering to skip when appearing first on subsequent lines |
We tested adding Quoted Text elements in UK Bills, Scottish Bills, and SIs. We checked that existing Editor functions continued to work in documents containing these elements. We checked that PDF rendering and line numbering continued to work correctly in provisions which contained Quoted Text elements.
Church Measures
Ticket reference | Testing result | Description | Notes |
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LDAPP-321 | Pass | Create a new Church Measure project | |
LDAPP-3087 | Pass | Church Measure template | |
LDAPP-4458 | Pass | Church Measure XML/PDF - Refactoring hardcoded 'HL Paper' and 'HC' texts on the front cover | |
LDAPP-3089 | Pass | Convert Church Measure to enacted | |
LDAPP-4438 | Pass | Add Church Measure doctype to Insert Quoted Structure and Update Quoted Structure modals | |
LDAPP-4413 | Pass | Modify Document Information fields for Church Measures | |
SPT-1631 | Pass | Incorrect Document Push in Copy Provisions Operation | |
LDAPP-3088 | Pass | Modify "Insert front cover" and "Insert back cover" functions (and "Finalise version" modal) for Church Measures | |
LDAPP-411 | Pass | Generate a PDF of a Church Measure with correct styling, and display Church Measures in the Editor with correct styling | |
LDAPP-4466 | Pass | Submit enacted Measure to TNA | |
LDAPP-4465 | Pass | Enable Push/Pull and Insert/Update Origin Information functions for Church Measures |
Version 17 now adds supports for Church Measures documents. We tested the core Lawmaker functions in the Editor and on the Project tab in for Church Measures projects to ensure that users can draft and manage Measures in Lawmaker.
User feedback testing enabled us to identify some features which were not enabled for Church Measures (including the push/pull function and the ‘Submit to TNA’ action for enacted Measures). We worked with the development team to enable and test those features for Measures, and have included the necessary changes in the final version 17 release.
Uploading amendment list XML to create new amendments
Editing fragments of a schedule
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Ticket reference | Testing result | Description | Notes |
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LDAPP-4441 | Pass | Upload amendment list XML - backend | |
LDAPP-4399 | Pass | Upload amendment list XML - front-end |
Editing fragments of a schedule
Ticket reference | Testing result | Description | Notes |
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LDAPP-4373 | Pass | Implement fragmentation below the Schedule level | |
LDAPP-4397 | Pass | Update structure view to show fragments in schedules |
End-to-end tests performed
Significant issues found during testing
We identified a bug which prevented images displaying in the Editor. This has been fixed in the final version 17 build.
We identified a problem with the tag x-refs function and the ‘remove reference tag’ action which affected some references in documents containing line numbering. Where a reference extended over the end of a line, using the automatic tagging function or the ‘remove reference tag’ action (from the right-click menu or the floating toolbar) would sometimes remove both the XML tags and the textual content of the reference. Only the reference tags should be removed. This has been fixed in the final version 17 build.
We observed that the automatic reference tagging function sometimes added additional reference tags around existing references; that has been fixed in the final build.
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