Recipe Builder Pro · Phase 1 of 3
Testing the public site
Thank you for helping us get this right. Please plan about thirty to forty minutes, and know there is nothing here you can break.
What you’re looking at
Recipe Builder Pro is a complete recipe website. Visitors browse and search hundreds of recipes, see the nutrition for each one, save their favorites, plan a week of meals, and build a shopping list they can take to the store. The copy you are testing is a real, working version.
There are three phases to this test. You are on the first one now. We will email you what you need for each next phase when it is time.
Public site
The visitor experience. This is what you are testing today.
You are hereAdmin site
The owner’s control panel behind the site. Details to come by email.
App installation
Setting up a fresh copy, including automatic updates. Details to come by email.
How to report what you find
Please log everything in our issue tracker. You should have received an invite to it in your email, use that to sign in.
Open the issue tracker →A good report mentions what you were doing, and ideally the device and browser you were on. The four things most worth logging:
- Confusing — you were not sure what to tap or what something meant.
- Slow — something took longer than felt right.
- Broken — something did not work, looked wrong, or gave an error.
- Loved it — anything that felt good or clever. This matters too.
Please go through every step
We need the public site tested thoroughly, so work through all of these, in order. Log anything that stands out as you go.
First look
Open the site and scroll through the whole home page: the welcome banner, the featured recipes, and the full recipe list below.
Tell us if: anything loads slowly, looks squashed or off, or the first screen does not make it obvious what the site is for.
Find a recipe
Use the search box to look for a dish name and then an ingredient. Then work through the Category menu, the Filters, and the sort menu, trying a few options in each.
Tell us if: results felt wrong or missing, or a filter did not do what you expected.
Open a recipe
Tap into a recipe. Read the ingredients and the steps, look at the nutrition numbers, and change the number of servings to see the amounts update.
Tell us if: anything was hard to read, the amounts looked wrong when you changed servings, or something you expected was missing.
Make a quick account
Tap Sign In and enter your email. You will get a short code by email, type it in to finish. There is no password to remember.
Tell us if: the code was slow to arrive or the steps were unclear. Signing in is what lets you save the favorites, plans, and lists in the next steps.
Save favorites
Tap the heart on several recipes, then open Favorites to confirm they are all gathered there. Remove one and check it leaves.
Tell us if: a heart did not stick, or your favorites were not all there when you came back.
Plan your meals
Use Plan My Meals or the Meal Plan menu to add several recipes to a plan. Move one and remove one.
Tell us if: adding, moving, or removing meals was fiddly, or the plan did not save.
Build a shopping list, then try to order it
Use Build a Shopping List, add two or three recipes, and look at the combined list. Then use the Shop this list option and go all the way up to the point where it hands you off to a store.
Important: stop right there. Do not actually place an order or complete a purchase. Once a store takes over, you have left our site and it is out of the test. We only need to confirm the handoff to the store works.
Tell us if: ingredients were missing or doubled up oddly, the list was hard to use, or the handoff to the store did not start cleanly.
What Can I Make
Open What Can I Make and enter several ingredients you actually have at home. Look at what it suggests, then change the ingredients and try again.
Tell us if: the suggestions felt off, or you expected matches it did not find.
I’m Craving, and Convert
Try I’m Craving for a quick idea. Then use Convert to change an amount from one unit to another, for example cups to grams.
Tell us if: either one confused you or gave a result that looked wrong.
Rate and review
On a recipe, leave a star rating and write a short review. Try posting with your name, and try posting anonymously.
Tell us if: posting was unclear, or your review did not show up afterward.
Suggest a recipe
Use Suggest a Recipe to send in one of your own. Fill it in and submit it.
Tell us if: the form asked for anything confusing or would not submit.
Do it all again on another device
If you started on a computer, now open the site on your phone, or the other way around. Repeat a handful of the steps above: search, open a recipe, save a favorite, and start a shopping list.
Tell us if: anything was cramped, cut off, or hard to tap on the smaller screen.
When you’re done
That completes Phase 1. Thank you, this is a real help.
When you feel you have gone through everything, let us know, in the issue tracker or by email or text, so we can move you on to the next phase. You do not have to be perfect or catch every last thing, just tell us when you feel done.
We will then email you the guide for Phase 2, the admin site, and later Phase 3, installing a fresh copy. There is nothing to do between phases, just keep an eye on your inbox.