Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office
Jun 2025 – Jun 2026
12 Months active
Languages Used
JavaScriptYAML
Technical Skills
CypressEnd-to-end testingAutomationBack-end DevelopmentCI/CDEnd-to-End Testing
Hardie Brown
PROFILE
Hardie Brown
Over twelve months, contributed to the Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office repository by building and stabilizing end-to-end test automation for appeals workflows. Delivered features such as expanded UI coverage, new API endpoints for reviewing statements, and comprehensive enforcement appeal tests, while consistently improving CI/CD reliability. Applied JavaScript and Cypress to implement robust test suites, refactor infrastructure, and enforce code formatting standards with Prettier and YAML configuration. Focused on reducing test flakiness, accelerating feedback loops, and aligning automated tests with evolving business rules, resulting in more dependable releases. The work emphasized maintainability, test isolation, and accurate validation of complex back-office processes across the appeals module.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
48%Features
Repository Contributions
76Total
Bugs
14
Commits
76
Features
13
Lines of code
7,851
Activity Months12
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87 peopleSame Organization
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Shared Repositories
53
Work History
June 2026
1 Commits
Jun 1, 2026June 2026 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Fixed CI automation tests configuration for the Appeals module by correcting specification file references in the CI pipeline, stabilizing the test suite and enabling faster PR validation and release readiness.
1 Commits
Jun 1, 2026June 2026 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Fixed CI automation tests configuration for the Appeals module by correcting specification file references in the CI pipeline, stabilizing the test suite and enabling faster PR validation and release readiness.
June 2026
May 2026
1 Commits
May 1, 2026Month: 2026-05 — Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Reliability and quality improvements focused on the Appeals module. Key accomplishment: fixed end-to-end tests to accurately reflect appeal procedures and notification templates, stabilizing automation and CI for faster release cycles. Commit 3a9d30b6517e9f2cea9c8418902ebc1b6d7d52f0 documents the test fixes (A2-3978).
May 2026
1 Commits
May 1, 2026Month: 2026-05 — Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Reliability and quality improvements focused on the Appeals module. Key accomplishment: fixed end-to-end tests to accurately reflect appeal procedures and notification templates, stabilizing automation and CI for faster release cycles. Commit 3a9d30b6517e9f2cea9c8418902ebc1b6d7d52f0 documents the test fixes (A2-3978).
April 2026
2 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2026In April 2026, delivered end-to-end testing coverage for the enforcement appeal process in Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office, stabilizing the test suite and improving CI reliability. The work included end-to-end tests for enforcement journeys (including listed buildings) and fixes to flaky tests to ensure reliable outcomes, enabling faster feedback and more confident deployments.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Apr 1, 2026In April 2026, delivered end-to-end testing coverage for the enforcement appeal process in Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office, stabilizing the test suite and improving CI reliability. The work included end-to-end tests for enforcement journeys (including listed buildings) and fixes to flaky tests to ensure reliable outcomes, enabling faster feedback and more confident deployments.
April 2026
March 2026
2 Commits
Mar 1, 2026March 2026: Focused on stabilizing Appeals E2E tests and boosting CI efficiency. Implemented reliability improvements to the Appeals end-to-end tests by skipping broken tests where applicable, corrected Cypress spec paths in CI, adjusted test cases to reflect specific appeal types, and enabled parallel test execution to shorten feedback loops and accelerate releases. Result: more reliable CI pipelines and safer, faster deployments.
March 2026
2 Commits
Mar 1, 2026March 2026: Focused on stabilizing Appeals E2E tests and boosting CI efficiency. Implemented reliability improvements to the Appeals end-to-end tests by skipping broken tests where applicable, corrected Cypress spec paths in CI, adjusted test cases to reflect specific appeal types, and enabled parallel test execution to shorten feedback loops and accelerate releases. Result: more reliable CI pipelines and safer, faster deployments.
February 2026
1 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Delivered Code Formatting Standardization in Appeals Module to enforce consistent code styling via Prettier checks, improving readability and maintainability. The change reduces formatting-related review cycles and establishes a foundation for scalable code quality as the project grows. Commit aa35ba45f2f356706ab7f3649394f6cccc000813 with message 'test(appeals): run prettier check (A2-4154)'.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Delivered Code Formatting Standardization in Appeals Module to enforce consistent code styling via Prettier checks, improving readability and maintainability. The change reduces formatting-related review cycles and establishes a foundation for scalable code quality as the project grows. Commit aa35ba45f2f356706ab7f3649394f6cccc000813 with message 'test(appeals): run prettier check (A2-4154)'.
February 2026
January 2026
2 Commits
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 — Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Focused on stabilizing the appeals feature test suite to improve reliability and accelerate feedback loops. Key activities included correcting test cases for linking appeals and site visits, and adding assertions to verify that neighbor site addresses and designated sites appear on the case details page; updated tests to reflect current application behavior. Result: reduced test flakiness, more dependable CI, and faster turnaround on changes to the appeals workflow.
January 2026
2 Commits
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 — Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Focused on stabilizing the appeals feature test suite to improve reliability and accelerate feedback loops. Key activities included correcting test cases for linking appeals and site visits, and adding assertions to verify that neighbor site addresses and designated sites appear on the case details page; updated tests to reflect current application behavior. Result: reduced test flakiness, more dependable CI, and faster turnaround on changes to the appeals workflow.
November 2025
5 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2025Month: 2025-11 — Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office Key outcomes and highlights: - Key features delivered: - Appeals API Endpoints for Reviewing Statements and Comments: Added endpoints to facilitate reviewing statements and comments related to appeals, improving testing coverage and workflow visibility for appeals processing. Commits show active API iteration (7def1e7050fa73f2303c447caf182703a7206748). - Major bugs fixed: - Appeals Module Test Stabilization: Fixed failing tests in the appeals module, ensured test isolation by deleting appeals after each test, and updated assertions and test flows to validate case details, status messages, and timetable dates. Commits include test(appeals): resolve test failures and related fixes (938d82d9e762338f4fce7ecffbbb4c2a18e1c001; e75be557aaa0d33b246a5bc26318e6599b923b2d; 410053fb6b707ece8719899854db09824dfeda20; 11690fc68f7b5edef44a7de74b7dee6682bf06c7). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Business value: Increased reliability of the appeals back-office workflow, reduced flaky test runs, and faster, more confident deployments. The new API endpoints enable better testing coverage and visibility into the appeals review process, supporting quicker iteration on policy and decision flows. - Quality and maintainability: Strengthened test suite stability and maintainability through test isolation and clearer validation of key data points (case details, status messages, timetable dates). Technologies/skills demonstrated: - REST API design and testing: new endpoints to support reviewing statements and comments in appeals. - Test automation and assertions: rigorous test isolation, updated test flows, and assertion coverage to validate critical data points. - CI reliability and commit-driven development: multiple targeted commits focused on test reliability and API enhancement. - Cross-functional collaboration: aligned testing and API work to improve overall workflow visibility for appeals processing.
5 Commits • 1 Features
Nov 1, 2025Month: 2025-11 — Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office Key outcomes and highlights: - Key features delivered: - Appeals API Endpoints for Reviewing Statements and Comments: Added endpoints to facilitate reviewing statements and comments related to appeals, improving testing coverage and workflow visibility for appeals processing. Commits show active API iteration (7def1e7050fa73f2303c447caf182703a7206748). - Major bugs fixed: - Appeals Module Test Stabilization: Fixed failing tests in the appeals module, ensured test isolation by deleting appeals after each test, and updated assertions and test flows to validate case details, status messages, and timetable dates. Commits include test(appeals): resolve test failures and related fixes (938d82d9e762338f4fce7ecffbbb4c2a18e1c001; e75be557aaa0d33b246a5bc26318e6599b923b2d; 410053fb6b707ece8719899854db09824dfeda20; 11690fc68f7b5edef44a7de74b7dee6682bf06c7). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Business value: Increased reliability of the appeals back-office workflow, reduced flaky test runs, and faster, more confident deployments. The new API endpoints enable better testing coverage and visibility into the appeals review process, supporting quicker iteration on policy and decision flows. - Quality and maintainability: Strengthened test suite stability and maintainability through test isolation and clearer validation of key data points (case details, status messages, timetable dates). Technologies/skills demonstrated: - REST API design and testing: new endpoints to support reviewing statements and comments in appeals. - Test automation and assertions: rigorous test isolation, updated test flows, and assertion coverage to validate critical data points. - CI reliability and commit-driven development: multiple targeted commits focused on test reliability and API enhancement. - Cross-functional collaboration: aligned testing and API work to improve overall workflow visibility for appeals processing.
November 2025
October 2025
8 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office focusing on End-to-End Testing Infrastructure Improvements for Appeals. Implemented parallelized E2E test execution, automated cleanup after each test to ensure isolation, restored and enhanced test commands, and added environment provisioning steps to stabilize the pipeline. These changes reduced test runtimes, improved reliability, and accelerated release readiness for the Appeals module. Also expanded coverage with net residence tests and resolved failing tests to increase overall stability and confidence in deployments.
October 2025
8 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office focusing on End-to-End Testing Infrastructure Improvements for Appeals. Implemented parallelized E2E test execution, automated cleanup after each test to ensure isolation, restored and enhanced test commands, and added environment provisioning steps to stabilize the pipeline. These changes reduced test runtimes, improved reliability, and accelerated release readiness for the Appeals module. Also expanded coverage with net residence tests and resolved failing tests to increase overall stability and confidence in deployments.
September 2025
2 Commits
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office focused on stabilizing end-to-end tests and reducing flakiness in the appeals back-office UI. This period emphasized test reliability and CI confidence to enable safer deployments; no new features released this month beyond stability improvements.
2 Commits
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office focused on stabilizing end-to-end tests and reducing flakiness in the appeals back-office UI. This period emphasized test reliability and CI confidence to enable safer deployments; no new features released this month beyond stability improvements.
September 2025
August 2025
7 Commits • 3 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 (2025-08) summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Delivered three core features with robust testing and one test-infrastructure improvement, strengthening user experience, data accuracy, and release reliability. Related Appeals UI now uses standardized success messages with expanded error-message tests to validate user feedback when submitting related appeals. Not Received Decision UI extends coverage to display the decision status, including decision date fields, ensuring end-users see accurate status and required fields. Decision Letters update workflow includes end-to-end tests for uploading letters, applying corrections, and verifying notification flows to confirm complete processing. A bug fix involved removing test isolation for a globalDateValidation.spec to consolidate test setup, improving maintainability and reducing test fragmentation. Impact: clearer user feedback, more reliable decision-status presentation, validated end-to-end processing, and a streamlined test pipeline that supports safer, faster releases. Technologies/skills demonstrated: frontend UI testing, end-to-end test automation, test isolation/refactoring, and commit-driven delivery across the back-office UI.
August 2025
7 Commits • 3 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 (2025-08) summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Delivered three core features with robust testing and one test-infrastructure improvement, strengthening user experience, data accuracy, and release reliability. Related Appeals UI now uses standardized success messages with expanded error-message tests to validate user feedback when submitting related appeals. Not Received Decision UI extends coverage to display the decision status, including decision date fields, ensuring end-users see accurate status and required fields. Decision Letters update workflow includes end-to-end tests for uploading letters, applying corrections, and verifying notification flows to confirm complete processing. A bug fix involved removing test isolation for a globalDateValidation.spec to consolidate test setup, improving maintainability and reducing test fragmentation. Impact: clearer user feedback, more reliable decision-status presentation, validated end-to-end processing, and a streamlined test pipeline that supports safer, faster releases. Technologies/skills demonstrated: frontend UI testing, end-to-end test automation, test isolation/refactoring, and commit-driven delivery across the back-office UI.
July 2025
42 Commits • 6 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office focused on delivering high-value test automation improvements, stabilizing the Appeals test suite, and expanding coverage for critical flows. Emphasizes business value through higher confidence releases and faster feedback to development teams. Highlights include new S20 journey tests, expanded journey coverage (LPA Statement, LPAQ reviews), reliability engineering for site-visit tests, and test-suite maintenance.
42 Commits • 6 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office focused on delivering high-value test automation improvements, stabilizing the Appeals test suite, and expanding coverage for critical flows. Emphasizes business value through higher confidence releases and faster feedback to development teams. Highlights include new S20 journey tests, expanded journey coverage (LPA Statement, LPAQ reviews), reliability engineering for site-visit tests, and test-suite maintenance.
July 2025
June 2025
3 Commits
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 — Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Stabilized the Appeals test suite and restored end-to-end coverage for key back-office flows. Cleaned repository hygiene by removing unintended package.json changes and an unused test-dir package.json, and re-enabled previously commented-out E2E tests. Delivered through commits ca5622c6f8135fbd040cfbe9e3e0cc38ab3336d0; 91e0e8eddb774636ddb7e184754c747f4262f31e; 054c294a0de449225a41d9d10146232ee1677776. Result: more reliable CI, reduced flaky tests, and stronger release readiness for appeals back-office processes.
June 2025
3 Commits
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 — Planning-Inspectorate/appeals-back-office: Stabilized the Appeals test suite and restored end-to-end coverage for key back-office flows. Cleaned repository hygiene by removing unintended package.json changes and an unused test-dir package.json, and re-enabled previously commented-out E2E tests. Delivered through commits ca5622c6f8135fbd040cfbe9e3e0cc38ab3336d0; 91e0e8eddb774636ddb7e184754c747f4262f31e; 054c294a0de449225a41d9d10146232ee1677776. Result: more reliable CI, reduced flaky tests, and stronger release readiness for appeals back-office processes.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness90.6%
Maintainability90.0%
Architecture85.8%
Performance87.4%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
JavaScriptYAML
Technical Skills
API DevelopmentAutomationBack-end DevelopmentCI/CDCypressDevOpsEnd-to-End TestingEnd-to-end testingFront End DevelopmentFront-end DevelopmentJavaScriptJavaScript testingPage Object ModelRefactoringTest Automation
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