Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision
Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
10 Months active
Languages Used
JavaScriptTypeScriptHTMLJSONShell
Technical Skills
CypressEnd-to-End TestingFront End DevelopmentPage Object ModelTest AutomationTesting
Lpsatti
PROFILE
Lpsatti
Lakshmi Satti worked on the Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision repository, focusing on updating terminology for appeal types and national landscape designations to align with evolving policy guidance. She enhanced automated end-to-end test coverage for final comment submissions, improving input validation and email handling to increase continuous integration reliability and reduce regression risk. Using JavaScript and Cypress, Lakshmi prioritized automation stability and test data quality, ensuring that automated tests accurately reflected new policy requirements. Her work demonstrated a disciplined approach to automation testing and UI terminology standardization, contributing to more reliable release cycles and improved quality assurance for planning decision workflows.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
72%Features
Repository Contributions
50Total
Bugs
5
Commits
50
Features
13
Lines of code
24,161
Activity Months10
Your Network
63 peopleSame Organization
@planninginspectorate.gov.uk39
Work History
September 2025
7 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 performance summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision: Delivered notable improvements to automated testing and end-to-end validation, including maintenance of the test suite and a robust verification workflow for published documents. Key bug fix addressed the handling of multiple downloads, ensuring every published document in a decision is verifiably downloadable. These efforts increased reliability of CI tests, reduced flaky test results, and strengthened document-workflow validation, accelerating safe releases.
7 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 performance summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision: Delivered notable improvements to automated testing and end-to-end validation, including maintenance of the test suite and a robust verification workflow for published documents. Key bug fix addressed the handling of multiple downloads, ensuring every published document in a decision is verifiably downloadable. These efforts increased reliability of CI tests, reduced flaky test results, and strengthened document-workflow validation, accelerating safe releases.
September 2025
July 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 — Focused delivery across the Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision repo to improve test reliability, data integrity, and end-to-end coverage for s20/s78 appeals. The work enhances CI feedback speed and release readiness by standardizing the test suite, correcting test data, and strengthening test infrastructure for appeal decision workflows.
July 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 — Focused delivery across the Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision repo to improve test reliability, data integrity, and end-to-end coverage for s20/s78 appeals. The work enhances CI feedback speed and release readiness by standardizing the test suite, correcting test data, and strengthening test infrastructure for appeal decision workflows.
June 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision: highlights features delivered, major bugs fixed, and resulting business value. Focus on robustness, risk reduction, and test improvements across the appeal submission workflow.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision: highlights features delivered, major bugs fixed, and resulting business value. Focus on robustness, risk reduction, and test improvements across the appeal submission workflow.
June 2025
May 2025
9 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025Month: 2025-05 – This period focused on building a robust testing and authentication foundation for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision to enable safer releases and faster feedback loops. Key outcomes include a complete overhaul of the feature test suite with end-to-end coverage for critical flows, integration of Microsoft authentication via Puppeteer, and improvements to test infrastructure for maintainability and reliability.
May 2025
9 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025Month: 2025-05 – This period focused on building a robust testing and authentication foundation for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision to enable safer releases and faster feedback loops. Key outcomes include a complete overhaul of the feature test suite with end-to-end coverage for critical flows, integration of Microsoft authentication via Puppeteer, and improvements to test infrastructure for maintainability and reliability.
March 2025
4 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025: Key delivery on Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision. Implemented Enhanced Full Appeal and Householder Appeal Validation Flows and Tests, expanding data-entry validation across major/minor development and application details and strengthening test coverage to reduce regression risk. Fixed a critical test reliability issue by correcting the designatedsite8 selector and adjusting the test counter in the full appeal questionnaire, improving CI stability. Performed refinements to onboarding mappings (LPA department to authority) and temporary questionnaire validation adjustments to improve maintainability and policy adaptability. Delivered improvements that reduce data-entry errors, accelerate decision timelines, and strengthen release confidence through clearer documentation and test artifacts.
4 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025: Key delivery on Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision. Implemented Enhanced Full Appeal and Householder Appeal Validation Flows and Tests, expanding data-entry validation across major/minor development and application details and strengthening test coverage to reduce regression risk. Fixed a critical test reliability issue by correcting the designatedsite8 selector and adjusting the test counter in the full appeal questionnaire, improving CI stability. Performed refinements to onboarding mappings (LPA department to authority) and temporary questionnaire validation adjustments to improve maintainability and policy adaptability. Delivered improvements that reduce data-entry errors, accelerate decision timelines, and strengthen release confidence through clearer documentation and test artifacts.
March 2025
February 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025: Delivered Cypress end-to-end test coverage for the appeal flow in Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision, validating full appeal and householder flows and incorporating BYS placement of the enforcement notice. Refined initialization and access-flow tests to reflect BYS changes, stabilizing test suites and reducing flaky runs. This work improves release confidence, shortens feedback loops for changes to the appeals process, and supports safer BYS migrations.
February 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025: Delivered Cypress end-to-end test coverage for the appeal flow in Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision, validating full appeal and householder flows and incorporating BYS placement of the enforcement notice. Refined initialization and access-flow tests to reflect BYS changes, stabilizing test suites and reducing flaky runs. This work improves release confidence, shortens feedback loops for changes to the appeals process, and supports safer BYS migrations.
January 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision repository. Focused on strengthening quality and reliability of the S78 questionnaire validation flow within LPA Manage Your Appeals by expanding end-to-end test coverage, validating key navigation and data constraints, and ensuring notification flows are exercised. This work reduces risk of regressions in live appeals and accelerates QA cycles.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision repository. Focused on strengthening quality and reliability of the S78 questionnaire validation flow within LPA Manage Your Appeals by expanding end-to-end test coverage, validating key navigation and data constraints, and ensuring notification flows are exercised. This work reduces risk of regressions in live appeals and accelerates QA cycles.
January 2025
December 2024
12 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 - Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision: Automation and test-automation improvements across the appeal workflow focused on end-to-end questionnaire validation, householder validations, and test framework modernization. Delivered tangible features and fixes with clear business value:
December 2024
12 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 - Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision: Automation and test-automation improvements across the appeal workflow focused on end-to-end questionnaire validation, householder validations, and test framework modernization. Delivered tangible features and fixes with clear business value:
November 2024
2 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision: Completed a major feature to strengthen questionnaire validation and test data coverage across appeal-related flows, with refactored validation messaging and expanded test data/helper logic to support cross-flow coverage (appeal validation, listed buildings, conservation areas, green belts, and environmental impact assessment).
2 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision: Completed a major feature to strengthen questionnaire validation and test data coverage across appeal-related flows, with refactored validation messaging and expanded test data/helper logic to support cross-flow coverage (appeal validation, listed buildings, conservation areas, green belts, and environmental impact assessment).
November 2024
October 2024
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision: Focused on strengthening end-to-end test coverage for the LPA questionnaire flow. Refactored Cypress tests to modular page objects, expanded test data, and increased reliability and maintainability of test suites. These changes reduce flaky tests and improve feedback speed for releases affecting planning decisions.
October 2024
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeal-planning-decision: Focused on strengthening end-to-end test coverage for the LPA questionnaire flow. Refactored Cypress tests to modular page objects, expanded test data, and increased reliability and maintainability of test suites. These changes reduce flaky tests and improve feedback speed for releases affecting planning decisions.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness86.6%
Maintainability84.4%
Architecture77.0%
Performance79.0%
AI Usage22.0%
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