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2 years ago Team's Response
We did not set it out as a requirement for the name to be in words. Some people might want to name their trips in random words for code names to avoid detection by their parents.
Items for the Tester to Verify
:question: Issue response
Team chose [response.Rejected]
- [x] I disagree
Reason for disagreement: Although I agree that disallowing numbers or symbols will severely limit the feature, I don't agree with the idea that users can enter any length of numbers or symbols as a legitimate name for a trip. The justification you have given that users want to avoid "detection" by their parents is rather farfetched. I feel like you're just conjuring a reason to cover up for the lack of handling of this bug. You can easily consider checking or issuing a warning to users if they enter such illegible descriptions for the trips.
Furthermore, this will affect the functioning of other features. Firstly, if let's say the user decides to just use numbers and symbols for their trips, it defeats the purpose of the whole tracker of being an easy way to record and view your trips. Functions like find will become require increasingly tiresome for the user as they have to enter such bizarre values to search trips.
Finally, I think as the user logs more and more trips in this fashion, the trips are going to become very difficult to discern for the user to understand. Hence, I believe that this issue must at least be accounted for by limiting the number of special characters and numbers or at least issue a warning to ensure that this way of entering descriptions isn't recommended.
:question: Issue severity
Team chose [severity.VeryLow]
Originally [severity.Low]
- [x] I disagree
Reason for disagreement: As I have explained earlier, this isn't simply some cosmetic bug that can be written of as "very low" in severity. At best, I think a "low" severity is appropriate for this bug. As can be seen below:
I can enter a string of numbers or "?"'s for a trip's name. I think that also makes no sense as your trip name should consist of at least a couple of alphabetical characters or else it doesn't really qualify as a "good" name. Perhaps a way to check this can help fix this issue.