Origami Newsletter, April 2020
TL;DR:
This issue features the Origami Component Survey, Automating Visual Testing of Origami Components and moving from CircleCI to GitHub Actions
Top Things
These are some of the bigger things we’ve done over the last month.
Origami Components Survey
This quarter we are aiming to find out what our users know about Origami, how much of Origami they use and how we can improve our products for all of our users.
Our first survey has already gone out, it was to find out how we can help teams build their own Origami Components. You can read more about the survey results on our blog.
Automated Visual Regression Testing
When reviewing changes made to an Origami Component, we have to view the component in multiple browsers, at mulitple resolutions and mulitple different configurations for the component. This is to check if any visual bugs have been introduced accidentally as part of the change. It is a rather taxing and manual piece of work.
We’ve automated all of that manual work now. Now when a change is made to an Origami Component, if the change has caused any of the visual aspects of the component to be different we are made aware of those changes and can quickly review and approve the work.
This work has already proved to be useful by immediately finding a visual regression for a change in o-teaser, which we were able to fix before it went live on any website.
Moved from CircleCI to GitHub Actions
We’ve moved all of our automated tooling which was on CircleCI to GitHub Actions. This should shorten the size of the CircleCI queue for every FT project, making everyone’s feedback loop shorter.
Moving to GitHub Actions has helped us manage all our repositories by making it simple to automate types of work such as releasing changes and adding tickets to our project board.
As part of this work we’ve also made a GitHub Action for the Operations & Reliability Change API.
Special Thanks
This months special thanks goes to all the people who filled in our first survey. You all are helping to improve Origami, thank you.
Broader Update
A digest of other things that have happened since our last update:
o-share got a new design built for a small variation which will be used on live blogs 
o-share also got improved accessbility and analytics support thanks to Glynn Phillips in Customer Products.
o-quote now has an editorial style thanks to Josh from the Content Innovation team.
o-editorial-layout uses the new editorial quote style from o-quote 
o-teaser uses a new design which updated the spacing thanks to Eray and Mark from the Apps team.
polyfill-library fixed a bug for Map support in Internet Explorer
polyfill-library also added Object.fromEntries support in Internet Explorer
polyfill-library fixed a bug in HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.toBlob for Edge
polyfill-library added URLSearchParams.sort and CSS.Supports support for all browsers
