Hi,

I have 4 usability issues. I wonder what do you think and if they
could be addressed?

1)
When I look at result page of a single distribution (e.g.
http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/Y/YAML.html )
there are two tables on that page. The "PASS Summary" and the
"Selected Reports".

The "Preferences" at the left hand side change how one sees the
"Selected Reports" but
when the "Preferences" are visible the  "Selected Reports" are below the fold.

This always confuses me even though I have already seen this page several times.
I only guess that this is confusing to new visitors.

I wonder if it would be better to have these two tables on two pages ensuring
that the "Preferences" and  "Selected Reports" are always visible at
the same time.

Looking more closely, there is a link under the first table leading to
http://pass.cpantesters.org/distro/Y/YAML.html where the "PASS Summary"
table is repeated. So maybe it can be just removed from the first page?


2) Looking at MetaCPAN https://metacpan.org/module/YAML::Any I thought it might
be nice to be able to have a link that will only display the FAIL
reports. Before asking this from
the MetaCPAN developers, I looked at the HTML source of the CPAN
Testers page where I saw this:

<h2>Grade:</h2>
<select id="grade_pref" name="grade" onchange="check_grade(this)">
<option value="0">All Reports</option>
<option value="1">PASS ONLY</option>
<option value="2">FAIL ONLY</option>
<option value="3">NA ONLY</option>
<option value="4">UNKNOWN ONLY</option>
</select>

So I tried this link:   http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/Y/YAML.html?grade=2

It showed me all the reports PASS ONLY.
(well, after I scrolled down as the PASS Summary still takes up the
top of the table).

Using http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/Y/YAML.html?grade=3  shows all
the FAIL reports
but I am not sure why is that difference between the number in the
select box and the number
I pass in the GET request.

3) It might be interesting to allow one to see all the reports that
are not PASS (so FAIL+NA+UNKNOWN)
This might be a lot less important if the "preference" part and the
report table would be visible at the same time.

4) When showing only some of the reports it might be nice to display a
text: "Showing 5 results out of a total of 137"

regards
   Gabor

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