Complete MVP Validation: A Comprehensive Guide

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Validating your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a crucial step in the development process. It ensures that your product meets the needs of your target audience and functions as intended. This article provides a comprehensive guide to complete MVP validation, covering everything from creating specific validations for data tables to implementing cross-validations and testing.

Understanding MVP Validation

At its core, MVP validation is about confirming that your product's core features work correctly and provide value to users. This involves a series of tests and checks to identify potential issues and ensure that the product meets the defined success criteria. The process typically involves creating specific validations for individual data tables, implementing cross-validations to ensure consistency across the system, and rigorous testing to identify and resolve any issues.

The Importance of Data Table Validation

Data tables are the backbone of many applications, storing critical information that the system relies on. Validating these tables is essential to ensure data integrity and prevent errors. Specific validations focus on individual tables, checking for issues like incorrect data types, missing values, or out-of-range values. Cross-validations, on the other hand, ensure that data across different tables is consistent and that relationships between tables are maintained.

🎯 MVP: Validação Completa Funcional

The core of this MVP validation focuses on ensuring complete functionality. This means that all aspects of the validation process must be functional and reliable. Let's break down the micro-tasks involved:

5.7.1 Creating Specific Validations per Data Table (3 hours)

This micro-task is the foundation of our validation process. Specific validations are designed to check the integrity of individual data tables. We'll focus on several key data tables, including:

  • SpellDataTable: This table likely contains information about spells, including their names, effects, and costs. Validations might include ensuring that all spells have a name, that their costs are within a reasonable range, and that their effects are properly defined.
  • EnemyDataTable: This table probably stores data about enemies, such as their health, attack power, and abilities. Validations might check that all enemies have a defined health value, that their attack power is within acceptable limits, and that their abilities are correctly configured.
  • QuestDataTable: This table would contain information about quests, including their objectives, rewards, and prerequisites. Validations might ensure that all quests have a clear objective, that the rewards are appropriate, and that any prerequisites are properly defined.
  • Other Data Tables: Depending on the application, there may be other data tables that require specific validations. These could include tables for items, characters, locations, or any other relevant data.

The process of creating these validations involves defining the specific rules and checks that need to be performed for each table. This might involve setting data type constraints, range limits, and required fields. Once the validations are defined, they need to be implemented in code and thoroughly tested to ensure they function correctly.

Testing Validations: Testing is a critical part of this micro-task. It involves creating test cases that cover a range of scenarios, including both valid and invalid data. This helps to identify any errors in the validation logic and ensure that the validations are working as expected.

5.7.2 Implementing Cross-Validations (References) (2 hours)

While specific validations ensure the integrity of individual data tables, cross-validations are essential for maintaining consistency across the entire system. These validations check the relationships between different data tables, ensuring that data is correctly linked and that there are no broken references.

  • Validating References Between Data Tables: This involves checking that foreign keys and other references between tables are valid. For example, if a quest refers to a specific item, the cross-validation would ensure that the item actually exists in the ItemDataTable.
  • Validating That Referenced Items Exist: This is a specific type of reference validation that focuses on ensuring that all items referenced in other tables actually exist. This prevents errors that could occur if a quest or enemy refers to an item that has been deleted or is otherwise unavailable.
  • Validating That Referenced NPCs Exist: Similar to item validation, this ensures that all NPCs (Non-Player Characters) referenced in other tables are valid. This prevents issues that could arise if a quest refers to an NPC that no longer exists or has been incorrectly configured.

Testing Cross-Validations: Testing cross-validations is crucial to ensure that the relationships between tables are correctly maintained. This involves creating test cases that simulate various scenarios, such as adding, deleting, or modifying data in different tables. The tests should verify that the cross-validations correctly identify any inconsistencies or broken references.

5.7.3 Testing All Validations (1 hour)

This micro-task is the culmination of the validation process. It involves thoroughly testing all the validations, both specific and cross, to ensure that they are working correctly and that the system is properly validating data.

  • Testing Specific Validations: This involves running the tests created in micro-task 5.7.1 to verify that the specific validations for each data table are functioning as expected.
  • Testing Cross-Validations: This involves running the tests created in micro-task 5.7.2 to verify that the cross-validations are correctly checking the relationships between data tables.
  • Verifying That All Validations Work: This is a comprehensive check to ensure that all validations, both specific and cross, are working as intended. This might involve running additional tests or performing manual checks to ensure that the system is robust and reliable.
  • Correcting Problems Found: If any issues are identified during testing, they need to be promptly addressed. This might involve fixing errors in the validation logic, updating data in the tables, or adjusting the validation rules.

Definition of Done

For this cycle to be considered complete, several criteria must be met:

  • Code Implemented and Tested: All the validation code must be implemented and thoroughly tested.
  • Tests Passing (If Applicable): Any automated tests must be passing, indicating that the validations are functioning correctly.
  • Documentation Updated (If Applicable): Any relevant documentation, such as GDD (Game Design Document) or TDD (Test-Driven Development) documents, must be updated to reflect the changes made during this cycle.
  • Changelog Updated (If Significant Change): If the changes made during this cycle are significant, the CHANGELOG.md file should be updated to reflect these changes.

Documentação Correspondente

This cycle updates:

  • TDD: Documentação Relacionada: This documentation describes the test-driven development approach used in this project.
  • GDD: Documentação Relacionada: This documentation outlines the overall game design and provides context for the validation process.

Action: Update the documents above upon completion of this cycle.

✅ Success Criteria

This cycle is considered complete when:

  • Specific validations created: Validations for individual data tables have been implemented.
  • Cross-validations implemented: Validations for relationships between data tables have been implemented.
  • All validations tested: All validations have been thoroughly tested and are functioning correctly.

Validation: The system must correctly validate all data tables and detect invalid references.

🔄 Próximos Ciclos

After completing this cycle, the next steps include:

  • Cycle 5.8: MVP Editor Tools
  • Cycle 6.1: MVP Attack System

These cycles will build upon the validated data structures and ensure that the core game mechanics are functioning correctly.

Última atualização: 2024-12-27

Conclusion

Complete MVP validation is a critical process for ensuring the quality and reliability of your product. By implementing specific and cross-validations, and thoroughly testing them, you can identify and resolve potential issues early in the development process. This leads to a more robust and user-friendly product. For more information on MVP validation and software development best practices, visit agilealliance.org.