Scorecard Evaluation

The following evaluation methods are proposed for the scorecard items selected in the Scorecard BOF at the Ninth Sakai Conference in Paris, France. Please feel free to edit in place, add comments in other colors, or append comments below.

Note that point scales for individual items vary considerably. This is not a problem if we develop a weighting schemes when scores are rolled up into the four evaluation dimensions.

See also Scorecard Item Definitions

No.	Scorecard Item	Points	Evaluation	Comments
1.0	User Experience
1.1	Consistency / Best practices	10	UI Checklist is needed.
1.2	Usability	10	Very subjective, how to evaluate?	MJN:Perhaps a rating system?
1.3	Accessibility	10	UI Checklist is needed.. Screen reader trial - 0/1. Accessibility should be a requirement, given University regulations.	Will the existing protocols and templates suffice? http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/3ok
1.4	Internationalization	unlimited	Number of languages supported.
1.5	Ease of use	0	Same as usability and same problems.	MJN: Merge into usability.
1.6	User testing	10	Results scaled vs. 10 points.
2.0	Technical
2.1	Browser support	6	IE6 - 1, IE7 - 1, Firefox2 - 1, Firefox3 - 1, Safari - 1, Opera - 1, Others - 1	MJN: What is our policy?
2.2	Code review	10	Results graded on 10 points.	MJN: This is formal code review.
2.3	Unit testing	10	Percent coverage scaled to 10 points.
2.4	Functional regression testing	10	Percent coverage scaled to 10 points.	MJN: Requires a test plan.
2.5	Integration testing	10	Test harness - 5. Results - 5	MJN: What is tested here?
2.6	Performance testing	10	Test harness - 5. Results - 5
2.7	Internationalization	10	Checklist. Strings externalized into bundle - 0/1
2.8	Licensing	10	Percent files labeled scaled to 10 points.
2.9	Outstanding JIRA bugs	10	None - 10, Some - 5, Many - 0.	MJN: This is a bit vague.
2.10	Packaging (code structure)	10	Checklist is needed.
2.11	Static code review	10	Code review harness - 5. Results - 5.	MJN: This is an automated review.
2.12	Validation/spec conformance	10	Checklist is needed.	MJN: Wasn't this supposed to replace spec validation?
2.13	DB support	10	Hypersonic - 3, MySQL - 3, Oracle - 3, Others - 1	MJN: This could be better expressed.
2.14	DB best practices	10	Checklist is needed.
2.15	Security review	10	Checklist is needed.
2.16	Technical	0	Not sure what this means. Checklist is needed.	MJN: Drop this in favor of code reviews.
2.17	Event tracking	2	All - 2, Some - 1, None - 0.
3.0	Descriptive
3.1	Bundled Help	10	Coverage scaled to 10 points.
3.2	Test plan	10	Coverage scaled to 10 points.
3.3	Javadocs	10	Coverage - 5 points, Quality - 5 points.
3.4	Design Documentation	3	Good - 3, Fair - 2, Some - 1, None - 0.
3.5	Wiki/website	0	What would be on these pages?
3.6	Deployment doc	3	Good - 3, Fair - 2, Some - 1, None - 0.
3.7	End user external docs.	3	Good - 3, Fair - 2, Some - 1, None - 0.
3.8	Issue Tracking (Jira)	3	Good - 3, Fair - 2, Some - 1, None - 0.
3.9	Events documented	3	Good - 3, Fair - 2, Some - 1, None - 0.
3.10	Licensing Documented	0	How is this different than above?
3.11	Configuration (sakai.properties)	3	Good - 3, Fair - 2, Some - 1, None - 0.
4.0	Community Support
4.1	Team size	unlimited	Number of regular participants	MJN: Big projects will get a boost because of this.
4.2	Team diversity (institution, dev/ux/qa)	4	Dev - 1, UX - 1, QA - 1, Others - 1
4.3	Responsiveness (Average time to respond to JIRAS)	10	Response time scaled to 10 points.	MJN: Possible, but a LOT of math.
4.4	Production experience - length, scale, diversity	3	Proposed - 0, New - 1, Mature - 2, Ancient - 3
4.5	Communications and openness.	10	Response scaled to 10 points	MJN: How to measure?