Words you will meet

These are the words LobLogix uses on screen, in the order you are likely to meet them.

Your account

• Customer Company. Your company’s private space in LobLogix. Everything you make belongs to it.
• Application. One thing you are building. Each has its own specification, checks and versions.
• Backend. Everything behind the screens of an application: your records, your rules, who may do what, and sign-in. LobLogix builds it.
• Frontend. The screens people use. It is yours to choose and build.

Describing and agreeing

• Capability. One thing the application will do, written as a line in the list.
• Done when. The sentence under a capability that says what finished looks like.
• Work item. A piece of agreed work, made of one or more capabilities.
• Scope agreement. The record of what you agreed, and when.
• Living Spec. The full written description of your application in business terms. Some screens write it as LiveSpec.
• Domain. An area of your business, such as bookings or billing.
• Resource. A kind of record you keep, such as a booking or an invoice.

Checks

• Battery Tests. Checks written from your specification before anything is built. The assistant also calls them checks.
• Suite. A group of related checks.
• Pin. A note that says “these checks belong to exactly this version of the specification”.
• Freeze. Locking reviewed checks so that nobody can quietly change them.

Versions

• Sheet. A separate working copy where you try a change.
• Checkpoint. A saved point on a sheet.
• Bookmark. A name you give a checkpoint.
• Snapshot. A permanent saved version. It is marked STAGE or PROD.
• Promote. Declaring a tested snapshot the official version.

Building and running

• Code Canvas. The technical blueprint an application is built from.
• Build. One attempt to turn a saved blueprint into something that can run.
• Deploy. Installing a build somewhere people can use it.
• Release. One finished edition of your application, installed somewhere.
• Destination. One place where an application runs, such as its Preview or its Stage.
• Harbor. Several destinations shown side by side.
• Database changes. Changes to how your records are stored, which a new version may need.
• Preview, Stage, Production. Three places an application can run: for trying, for sign-off, and for real use. The alpha covers Preview and Stage.
• Ask My Backend. Trying your application in plain words while it runs in Stage: adding sample records, trying actions, and reading what happened.

One word with one meaning

• Plan Execution. One run of the assistant carrying out a set of steps. It is not your list of agreed work, and it is not a price level.