Welcome to UX Remote LAB

UX Remote LAB is a user-friendly platform for usability testing and heuristic evaluation. Designed and provided by UX Remote LAB, it is a web application developed to assist project creators in gathering valuable insights from their users.

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About

UX Remote LAB is an open-source platform designed to collect usability feedback from users. It allows you to gather user reviews, analyze them, and create comprehensive reports to better understand your application's usability. Additionally, it offers heuristic tests, enabling experts to evaluate your application's compliance with usability principles.

Community & Experience

UX Remote LAB provides a collaborative environment for creators to share their projects and receive voluntary assistance with usability reviews. You can communicate with evaluators and send them invitations for testing your applications.

Support

• Report a Bug 🐛
• Request a Feature 🚀
• Ask a Question 🤗

For commercial support, academic collaborations, and answers to common questions, please use Get Support to contact us.

Development Environment

• Node.js version: ≤ 16.20.1
• Vue.js version: 2.6.12
• Vue CLI version: 4.3.1
• Vuetify version: 2.3.10
• Python version: 3.11.8

Video Guide

Tutorial - Running RUXAILAB with Firebase Emulators 🖥️

Getting Started

Follow these steps to set up the development environment and run the application locally:

# Install dependencies
npm install
pip install

Open Firebase / Firestore and start a project.

• In the project dashboard, click on the settings button on the left side of the screen (gear icon).
• In the project settings, under the general tab, scroll down to the end of the screen, you should find the following screen.

In the folder of your project, create a file with the name .env and put the following data:

VUE_APP_FIREBASE_API_KEY=""
VUE_APP_FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN=""
VUE_APP_FIREBASE_DB_URL=""
VUE_APP_FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=""
VUE_APP_FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET=""
VUE_APP_FIREBASE_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=""
VUE_APP_FIREBASE_APP_ID=""


// Doesn't need changes
VUE_APP_I18N_LOCALE="en"
VUE_APP_I18N_FALLBACK_LOCALE="en"

Then, complete the information in your .env file with the firebase information, respectively in their fields, and run:

 # Run the application locally
 npm run serve

Running with Firebase Emulators

• Add firebase.json file with the following code snippet:

    {
  "firestore": {
    "rules": "firestore.rules",
    "indexes": "firestore.indexes.json"
  },
  "functions": [
    {
      "predeploy": ["npm --prefix \"$RESOURCE_DIR\" run lint"],
      "source": "functions",
      "codebase": "functions"
    },
    {
      "source": "weight_function",
      "codebase": "weight_function",
      "ignore": ["venv", ".git", "firebase-debug.log", "firebase-debug.*.log"]
    }
  ],
  "hosting": {
    "site": "ruxailab-dev",
    "public": "dist",
    "ignore": ["firebase.json", "**/.*", "**/node_modules/**"],
    "rewrites": [
      {
        "source": "**",
        "destination": "/index.html"
      }
    ]
  },
  "emulators": {
    "auth": {
      "port": 9099
    },
    "functions": {
      "port": 5001
    },
    "firestore": {
      "port": 8081
    },
    "hosting": {
      "port": 5000
    },
    "ui": {
      "enabled": true
    },
    "singleProjectMode": true,
    "storage": {
      "port": 9199
    }
  },
  "storage": {
    "rules": "storage.rules"
  }
}
	

Setup your Firebase Emulators

Run:

firebase use (choose your option)
firebase emulators:start

Running Python Function

To calculate heuristic weights, run:

# Run locally
 firebase init functions
 firebase use (choose your option)
 firebase emulators:start --only functions

Then get the url, go to the .env file and add the following sentence:

  // Your previous code
 VUE_APP_FIREBASE_PYTHON_FUNCTION="url"

If you want to deply the fuction, change your account from spark to blaze, run:

   firebase deploy --only functions

Go to firebase panel -> functions -> on the right side of the function press "detailed usage statistics". There you can get the url and replace on .env file.

Docker Setup

Building the Docker Image

To build the Docker image for UX Remote LAB, navigate to the project's root directory and run the following command:

docker build -t uxremotelab .

Running the Application using Docker

After building the image, you can run the application in a Docker container using:

Note: Ensure you have created the .env file and filled it with all required variables before running the following command:

docker run -d --env-file .env -p 5000:5000 uxremotelab

Visit http://localhost:5000 in your browser to access the UX Remote LAB platform.

License

MIT © UX Remote LAB