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Answer Driven Development

Answer Driven Development is the best approach to continuously improving the performance of your Kapa instance. This process involves deploying Kapa, monitoring its performance in real-world scenarios, identifying specific answers for improvement, and implementing changes to refine its responses. By adopting Answer Driven Development, you can ensure that Kapa evolves with your needs, providing more accurate and helpful answers over time.

Answer Driven Development

The Answer Driven Development Process​

Answer Driven Development is an ongoing cycle consisting of three main steps:

  1. Test in the Wild: Deploy Kapa across your platforms and let your users interact with it by asking real-world questions. This initial exposure is crucial for gathering data on its performance.

  2. Find Answers To Improve: Regularly review the responses given by Kapa to identify answers that could be improved. This step is key to recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of your Kapa instance.

  3. Ship Improvements: Implement improvements to Kapa, such as adjusting source configurations, adding new information, or directly refining answers through the platform.

Implementing Answer Driven Development​

To effectively implement Answer Driven Development and continuously improve your Kapa instance, we've created two comprehensive guides:

  1. Troubleshooting and improving Kapa's answers: This guide walks you through the process of identifying and resolving issues with Kapa's answers. It covers:

    • Identifying the root cause of incorrect or incomplete answers
    • Instructions for finding and improving answers
    • Common debugging scenarios and their resolutions

  2. Conversation review best practices: This guide focuses on the powerful "Improve This Answer" feature, which allows you to directly influence Kapa's responses. It includes:

    • Recommended review workflow
    • Suggestions for how to process review findings
    • Instructions for verifying improvements

By following these guides, you'll be able to practically implement the Answer Driven Development process, ensuring that your Kapa instance continually evolves and improves over time.