This was my first instance of using and being a part of the scrum workflow. Even though I knew how scrum worked from learning it in a previous class, I was still shocked at how enjoyable and manageable the scrum workflow process was. Our group was assigned the InventorySystem component of Thea’s Pantry. For this sprint, I focused on the CheckInventoryFrontend part of the InventorySystem. Our group did a sprint pre-planning, and we created issues for the “Convert all InventorySystem projects to new project structure” epic. I first made a sub-epic, made each bullet point its own issue, and then linked those issues to CheckInventoryFrontend (Link: https://gitlab.com/groups/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/-/epics/29). I will now go into more detail about what I have accomplished during the sprint. 

Evidence of Activity

Issue #1: Update devcontainer files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/10/diffs#6e656a06857650151f28f253233ed97584044098

For this issue, both the devcontainer.json and Dockerfile files in the .devcontainer folder were compared and updated to match the same files in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #2: Update Pipeline/CI files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9/diffs

For this issue, the .gitlab-ci.yml file, the Dockerfile, package.json, and Header.vue found in ./src were updated to match the already updated and working pipeline found in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #3: All documentation, licensing, linting configuration, .gitignore, .gitattributes files must be updated or added

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/7/diffs

In this issue, docs/developer and linting files were added, and the .gitattributes file was updated.

Issue #4: Revise directory structure:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/8/diffs

For this issue, bin was renamed to commands, files were moved from the top level into src, new commands such as build.sh were added, and some files and folders were deleted to match the GuestInfoFrontend.

I reviewed, approved, and merged the following issues:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkoutguestfrontend/-/merge_requests/10

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/addinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/17

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/18

What worked well?

Working as a team went really smoothly during this sprint. Our team had three frontends that were very similar, so once one person who was working on a frontend was able to figure out how to solve an issue, they would be able to help the other members working on frontends. Communication between team members was also great. When one member needed help, myself and other members would communicate over discord to discuss and fix the issue.

What didn’t work well?

I feel like there wasn’t much that didn’t work well. Very rarely in class we would get off topic and start a conversation about something else like discussing what computer parts are good. That time could have been better spent working on the issues.

What changes could be made to improve as a team?

We split the work so that basically one person was assigned to a part of the InventorySystem. We could have picked up issues in other parts of the InventorySystem to diversify our knowledge on how the InventorySystem works as a whole.

What changes could be made to improve as an individual?

Changes that I could have made to improve as an individual would be to actively search for a solution to problems that may have arised. When updating the pipeline, the program was giving me an unknown error and the professor said that he would look into the problem. Instead of trying to solve the issue myself, I waited for the professor to figure it out. Instead, I should have been also trying to find the solution to the error.

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

This was my first instance of using and being a part of the scrum workflow. Even though I knew how scrum worked from learning it in a previous class, I was still shocked at how enjoyable and manageable the scrum workflow process was. Our group was assigned the InventorySystem component of Thea’s Pantry. For this sprint, I focused on the CheckInventoryFrontend part of the InventorySystem. Our group did a sprint pre-planning, and we created issues for the “Convert all InventorySystem projects to new project structure” epic. I first made a sub-epic, made each bullet point its own issue, and then linked those issues to CheckInventoryFrontend (Link: https://gitlab.com/groups/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/-/epics/29). I will now go into more detail about what I have accomplished during the sprint. 

Evidence of Activity

Issue #1: Update devcontainer files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/10/diffs#6e656a06857650151f28f253233ed97584044098

For this issue, both the devcontainer.json and Dockerfile files in the .devcontainer folder were compared and updated to match the same files in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #2: Update Pipeline/CI files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9/diffs

For this issue, the .gitlab-ci.yml file, the Dockerfile, package.json, and Header.vue found in ./src were updated to match the already updated and working pipeline found in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #3: All documentation, licensing, linting configuration, .gitignore, .gitattributes files must be updated or added

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/7/diffs

In this issue, docs/developer and linting files were added, and the .gitattributes file was updated.

Issue #4: Revise directory structure:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/8/diffs

For this issue, bin was renamed to commands, files were moved from the top level into src, new commands such as build.sh were added, and some files and folders were deleted to match the GuestInfoFrontend.

I reviewed, approved, and merged the following issues:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkoutguestfrontend/-/merge_requests/10

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/addinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/17

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/18

What worked well?

Working as a team went really smoothly during this sprint. Our team had three frontends that were very similar, so once one person who was working on a frontend was able to figure out how to solve an issue, they would be able to help the other members working on frontends. Communication between team members was also great. When one member needed help, myself and other members would communicate over discord to discuss and fix the issue.

What didn’t work well?

I feel like there wasn’t much that didn’t work well. Very rarely in class we would get off topic and start a conversation about something else like discussing what computer parts are good. That time could have been better spent working on the issues.

What changes could be made to improve as a team?

We split the work so that basically one person was assigned to a part of the InventorySystem. We could have picked up issues in other parts of the InventorySystem to diversify our knowledge on how the InventorySystem works as a whole.

What changes could be made to improve as an individual?

Changes that I could have made to improve as an individual would be to actively search for a solution to problems that may have arised. When updating the pipeline, the program was giving me an unknown error and the professor said that he would look into the problem. Instead of trying to solve the issue myself, I waited for the professor to figure it out. Instead, I should have been also trying to find the solution to the error.

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

This was my first instance of using and being a part of the scrum workflow. Even though I knew how scrum worked from learning it in a previous class, I was still shocked at how enjoyable and manageable the scrum workflow process was. Our group was assigned the InventorySystem component of Thea’s Pantry. For this sprint, I focused on the CheckInventoryFrontend part of the InventorySystem. Our group did a sprint pre-planning, and we created issues for the “Convert all InventorySystem projects to new project structure” epic. I first made a sub-epic, made each bullet point its own issue, and then linked those issues to CheckInventoryFrontend (Link: https://gitlab.com/groups/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/-/epics/29). I will now go into more detail about what I have accomplished during the sprint. 

Evidence of Activity

Issue #1: Update devcontainer files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/10/diffs#6e656a06857650151f28f253233ed97584044098

For this issue, both the devcontainer.json and Dockerfile files in the .devcontainer folder were compared and updated to match the same files in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #2: Update Pipeline/CI files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9/diffs

For this issue, the .gitlab-ci.yml file, the Dockerfile, package.json, and Header.vue found in ./src were updated to match the already updated and working pipeline found in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #3: All documentation, licensing, linting configuration, .gitignore, .gitattributes files must be updated or added

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/7/diffs

In this issue, docs/developer and linting files were added, and the .gitattributes file was updated.

Issue #4: Revise directory structure:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/8/diffs

For this issue, bin was renamed to commands, files were moved from the top level into src, new commands such as build.sh were added, and some files and folders were deleted to match the GuestInfoFrontend.

I reviewed, approved, and merged the following issues:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkoutguestfrontend/-/merge_requests/10

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/addinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/17

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/18

What worked well?

Working as a team went really smoothly during this sprint. Our team had three frontends that were very similar, so once one person who was working on a frontend was able to figure out how to solve an issue, they would be able to help the other members working on frontends. Communication between team members was also great. When one member needed help, myself and other members would communicate over discord to discuss and fix the issue.

What didn’t work well?

I feel like there wasn’t much that didn’t work well. Very rarely in class we would get off topic and start a conversation about something else like discussing what computer parts are good. That time could have been better spent working on the issues.

What changes could be made to improve as a team?

We split the work so that basically one person was assigned to a part of the InventorySystem. We could have picked up issues in other parts of the InventorySystem to diversify our knowledge on how the InventorySystem works as a whole.

What changes could be made to improve as an individual?

Changes that I could have made to improve as an individual would be to actively search for a solution to problems that may have arised. When updating the pipeline, the program was giving me an unknown error and the professor said that he would look into the problem. Instead of trying to solve the issue myself, I waited for the professor to figure it out. Instead, I should have been also trying to find the solution to the error.

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

This was my first instance of using and being a part of the scrum workflow. Even though I knew how scrum worked from learning it in a previous class, I was still shocked at how enjoyable and manageable the scrum workflow process was. Our group was assigned the InventorySystem component of Thea’s Pantry. For this sprint, I focused on the CheckInventoryFrontend part of the InventorySystem. Our group did a sprint pre-planning, and we created issues for the “Convert all InventorySystem projects to new project structure” epic. I first made a sub-epic, made each bullet point its own issue, and then linked those issues to CheckInventoryFrontend (Link: https://gitlab.com/groups/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/-/epics/29). I will now go into more detail about what I have accomplished during the sprint. 

Evidence of Activity

Issue #1: Update devcontainer files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/10/diffs#6e656a06857650151f28f253233ed97584044098

For this issue, both the devcontainer.json and Dockerfile files in the .devcontainer folder were compared and updated to match the same files in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #2: Update Pipeline/CI files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9/diffs

For this issue, the .gitlab-ci.yml file, the Dockerfile, package.json, and Header.vue found in ./src were updated to match the already updated and working pipeline found in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #3: All documentation, licensing, linting configuration, .gitignore, .gitattributes files must be updated or added

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/7/diffs

In this issue, docs/developer and linting files were added, and the .gitattributes file was updated.

Issue #4: Revise directory structure:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/8/diffs

For this issue, bin was renamed to commands, files were moved from the top level into src, new commands such as build.sh were added, and some files and folders were deleted to match the GuestInfoFrontend.

I reviewed, approved, and merged the following issues:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkoutguestfrontend/-/merge_requests/10

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/addinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/17

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/18

What worked well?

Working as a team went really smoothly during this sprint. Our team had three frontends that were very similar, so once one person who was working on a frontend was able to figure out how to solve an issue, they would be able to help the other members working on frontends. Communication between team members was also great. When one member needed help, myself and other members would communicate over discord to discuss and fix the issue.

What didn’t work well?

I feel like there wasn’t much that didn’t work well. Very rarely in class we would get off topic and start a conversation about something else like discussing what computer parts are good. That time could have been better spent working on the issues.

What changes could be made to improve as a team?

We split the work so that basically one person was assigned to a part of the InventorySystem. We could have picked up issues in other parts of the InventorySystem to diversify our knowledge on how the InventorySystem works as a whole.

What changes could be made to improve as an individual?

Changes that I could have made to improve as an individual would be to actively search for a solution to problems that may have arised. When updating the pipeline, the program was giving me an unknown error and the professor said that he would look into the problem. Instead of trying to solve the issue myself, I waited for the professor to figure it out. Instead, I should have been also trying to find the solution to the error.

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

This was my first instance of using and being a part of the scrum workflow. Even though I knew how scrum worked from learning it in a previous class, I was still shocked at how enjoyable and manageable the scrum workflow process was. Our group was assigned the InventorySystem component of Thea’s Pantry. For this sprint, I focused on the CheckInventoryFrontend part of the InventorySystem. Our group did a sprint pre-planning, and we created issues for the “Convert all InventorySystem projects to new project structure” epic. I first made a sub-epic, made each bullet point its own issue, and then linked those issues to CheckInventoryFrontend (Link: https://gitlab.com/groups/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/-/epics/29). I will now go into more detail about what I have accomplished during the sprint. 

Evidence of Activity

Issue #1: Update devcontainer files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/10/diffs#6e656a06857650151f28f253233ed97584044098

For this issue, both the devcontainer.json and Dockerfile files in the .devcontainer folder were compared and updated to match the same files in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #2: Update Pipeline/CI files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9/diffs

For this issue, the .gitlab-ci.yml file, the Dockerfile, package.json, and Header.vue found in ./src were updated to match the already updated and working pipeline found in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #3: All documentation, licensing, linting configuration, .gitignore, .gitattributes files must be updated or added

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/7/diffs

In this issue, docs/developer and linting files were added, and the .gitattributes file was updated.

Issue #4: Revise directory structure:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/8/diffs

For this issue, bin was renamed to commands, files were moved from the top level into src, new commands such as build.sh were added, and some files and folders were deleted to match the GuestInfoFrontend.

I reviewed, approved, and merged the following issues:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkoutguestfrontend/-/merge_requests/10

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/addinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/17

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/18

What worked well?

Working as a team went really smoothly during this sprint. Our team had three frontends that were very similar, so once one person who was working on a frontend was able to figure out how to solve an issue, they would be able to help the other members working on frontends. Communication between team members was also great. When one member needed help, myself and other members would communicate over discord to discuss and fix the issue.

What didn’t work well?

I feel like there wasn’t much that didn’t work well. Very rarely in class we would get off topic and start a conversation about something else like discussing what computer parts are good. That time could have been better spent working on the issues.

What changes could be made to improve as a team?

We split the work so that basically one person was assigned to a part of the InventorySystem. We could have picked up issues in other parts of the InventorySystem to diversify our knowledge on how the InventorySystem works as a whole.

What changes could be made to improve as an individual?

Changes that I could have made to improve as an individual would be to actively search for a solution to problems that may have arised. When updating the pipeline, the program was giving me an unknown error and the professor said that he would look into the problem. Instead of trying to solve the issue myself, I waited for the professor to figure it out. Instead, I should have been also trying to find the solution to the error.

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

This was my first instance of using and being a part of the scrum workflow. Even though I knew how scrum worked from learning it in a previous class, I was still shocked at how enjoyable and manageable the scrum workflow process was. Our group was assigned the InventorySystem component of Thea’s Pantry. For this sprint, I focused on the CheckInventoryFrontend part of the InventorySystem. Our group did a sprint pre-planning, and we created issues for the “Convert all InventorySystem projects to new project structure” epic. I first made a sub-epic, made each bullet point its own issue, and then linked those issues to CheckInventoryFrontend (Link: https://gitlab.com/groups/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/-/epics/29). I will now go into more detail about what I have accomplished during the sprint. 

Evidence of Activity

Issue #1: Update devcontainer files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/10/diffs#6e656a06857650151f28f253233ed97584044098

For this issue, both the devcontainer.json and Dockerfile files in the .devcontainer folder were compared and updated to match the same files in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #2: Update Pipeline/CI files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9/diffs

For this issue, the .gitlab-ci.yml file, the Dockerfile, package.json, and Header.vue found in ./src were updated to match the already updated and working pipeline found in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #3: All documentation, licensing, linting configuration, .gitignore, .gitattributes files must be updated or added

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/7/diffs

In this issue, docs/developer and linting files were added, and the .gitattributes file was updated.

Issue #4: Revise directory structure:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/8/diffs

For this issue, bin was renamed to commands, files were moved from the top level into src, new commands such as build.sh were added, and some files and folders were deleted to match the GuestInfoFrontend.

I reviewed, approved, and merged the following issues:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkoutguestfrontend/-/merge_requests/10

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/addinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/17

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/18

What worked well?

Working as a team went really smoothly during this sprint. Our team had three frontends that were very similar, so once one person who was working on a frontend was able to figure out how to solve an issue, they would be able to help the other members working on frontends. Communication between team members was also great. When one member needed help, myself and other members would communicate over discord to discuss and fix the issue.

What didn’t work well?

I feel like there wasn’t much that didn’t work well. Very rarely in class we would get off topic and start a conversation about something else like discussing what computer parts are good. That time could have been better spent working on the issues.

What changes could be made to improve as a team?

We split the work so that basically one person was assigned to a part of the InventorySystem. We could have picked up issues in other parts of the InventorySystem to diversify our knowledge on how the InventorySystem works as a whole.

What changes could be made to improve as an individual?

Changes that I could have made to improve as an individual would be to actively search for a solution to problems that may have arised. When updating the pipeline, the program was giving me an unknown error and the professor said that he would look into the problem. Instead of trying to solve the issue myself, I waited for the professor to figure it out. Instead, I should have been also trying to find the solution to the error.

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

This was my first instance of using and being a part of the scrum workflow. Even though I knew how scrum worked from learning it in a previous class, I was still shocked at how enjoyable and manageable the scrum workflow process was. Our group was assigned the InventorySystem component of Thea’s Pantry. For this sprint, I focused on the CheckInventoryFrontend part of the InventorySystem. Our group did a sprint pre-planning, and we created issues for the “Convert all InventorySystem projects to new project structure” epic. I first made a sub-epic, made each bullet point its own issue, and then linked those issues to CheckInventoryFrontend (Link: https://gitlab.com/groups/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/-/epics/29). I will now go into more detail about what I have accomplished during the sprint. 

Evidence of Activity

Issue #1: Update devcontainer files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/10/diffs#6e656a06857650151f28f253233ed97584044098

For this issue, both the devcontainer.json and Dockerfile files in the .devcontainer folder were compared and updated to match the same files in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #2: Update Pipeline/CI files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9/diffs

For this issue, the .gitlab-ci.yml file, the Dockerfile, package.json, and Header.vue found in ./src were updated to match the already updated and working pipeline found in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #3: All documentation, licensing, linting configuration, .gitignore, .gitattributes files must be updated or added

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/7/diffs

In this issue, docs/developer and linting files were added, and the .gitattributes file was updated.

Issue #4: Revise directory structure:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/8/diffs

For this issue, bin was renamed to commands, files were moved from the top level into src, new commands such as build.sh were added, and some files and folders were deleted to match the GuestInfoFrontend.

I reviewed, approved, and merged the following issues:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkoutguestfrontend/-/merge_requests/10

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/addinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/17

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/18

What worked well?

Working as a team went really smoothly during this sprint. Our team had three frontends that were very similar, so once one person who was working on a frontend was able to figure out how to solve an issue, they would be able to help the other members working on frontends. Communication between team members was also great. When one member needed help, myself and other members would communicate over discord to discuss and fix the issue.

What didn’t work well?

I feel like there wasn’t much that didn’t work well. Very rarely in class we would get off topic and start a conversation about something else like discussing what computer parts are good. That time could have been better spent working on the issues.

What changes could be made to improve as a team?

We split the work so that basically one person was assigned to a part of the InventorySystem. We could have picked up issues in other parts of the InventorySystem to diversify our knowledge on how the InventorySystem works as a whole.

What changes could be made to improve as an individual?

Changes that I could have made to improve as an individual would be to actively search for a solution to problems that may have arised. When updating the pipeline, the program was giving me an unknown error and the professor said that he would look into the problem. Instead of trying to solve the issue myself, I waited for the professor to figure it out. Instead, I should have been also trying to find the solution to the error.

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

This was my first instance of using and being a part of the scrum workflow. Even though I knew how scrum worked from learning it in a previous class, I was still shocked at how enjoyable and manageable the scrum workflow process was. Our group was assigned the InventorySystem component of Thea’s Pantry. For this sprint, I focused on the CheckInventoryFrontend part of the InventorySystem. Our group did a sprint pre-planning, and we created issues for the “Convert all InventorySystem projects to new project structure” epic. I first made a sub-epic, made each bullet point its own issue, and then linked those issues to CheckInventoryFrontend (Link: https://gitlab.com/groups/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/-/epics/29). I will now go into more detail about what I have accomplished during the sprint. 

Evidence of Activity

Issue #1: Update devcontainer files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/10/diffs#6e656a06857650151f28f253233ed97584044098

For this issue, both the devcontainer.json and Dockerfile files in the .devcontainer folder were compared and updated to match the same files in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #2: Update Pipeline/CI files

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9/diffs

For this issue, the .gitlab-ci.yml file, the Dockerfile, package.json, and Header.vue found in ./src were updated to match the already updated and working pipeline found in the GuestInfoFrontend.

Issue #3: All documentation, licensing, linting configuration, .gitignore, .gitattributes files must be updated or added

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/7/diffs

In this issue, docs/developer and linting files were added, and the .gitattributes file was updated.

Issue #4: Revise directory structure:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/8/diffs

For this issue, bin was renamed to commands, files were moved from the top level into src, new commands such as build.sh were added, and some files and folders were deleted to match the GuestInfoFrontend.

I reviewed, approved, and merged the following issues:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/checkoutguestfrontend/-/merge_requests/10

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/addinventoryfrontend/-/merge_requests/9

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/17

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/merge_requests/18

What worked well?

Working as a team went really smoothly during this sprint. Our team had three frontends that were very similar, so once one person who was working on a frontend was able to figure out how to solve an issue, they would be able to help the other members working on frontends. Communication between team members was also great. When one member needed help, myself and other members would communicate over discord to discuss and fix the issue.

What didn’t work well?

I feel like there wasn’t much that didn’t work well. Very rarely in class we would get off topic and start a conversation about something else like discussing what computer parts are good. That time could have been better spent working on the issues.

What changes could be made to improve as a team?

We split the work so that basically one person was assigned to a part of the InventorySystem. We could have picked up issues in other parts of the InventorySystem to diversify our knowledge on how the InventorySystem works as a whole.

What changes could be made to improve as an individual?

Changes that I could have made to improve as an individual would be to actively search for a solution to problems that may have arised. When updating the pipeline, the program was giving me an unknown error and the professor said that he would look into the problem. Instead of trying to solve the issue myself, I waited for the professor to figure it out. Instead, I should have been also trying to find the solution to the error.

From the blog Comfy Blog by Angus Cheng and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

For sprint 1, I did insufficient work. The only changes that I ended up contributing are in this commit, which adds a Node script that runs an example unit test on GuestInfoBackend.

Before this class, I had not written any JavaScript unit tests, I was not aware of any testing frameworks for the language. I assumed that implementing simple unit tests would be trivial. I ended up spending a few hours learning how to use the mocha testing tool and chai assertion library. Because I needed to make HTTP requests, I spent the rest of the sprint trying to get chai-http working in order to do something similar to the previous testing implementation that I wasn’t aware of at the time.

Many projects will export an Express app as a node module. This makes it easy to use the same module both as a listening server and to serve requests by some parallel testing environment. Because we instead define our own entrypoint in src/index.js, I was gradually exploring how to define a second testing entrypoint when sprint 1 ended.

Many of the changes that both I and the team need to make for sprint 2 are circumstantial. We understood very little about many of the issues early in sprint 1. Some were small syntax changes, but others required quite a bit of domain knowledge. We’ve since developed enough of that knowledge. Especially now that we’ve agreed to delay significant front-end changes to sprint 3, we have most of the information needed to be confident we can address most of the sprint 2 issues.

Personally, I was much busier leading up to the end of February, and didn’t always reserve enough of my weekend time to work on issues, which obviously just need to change for sprints 2 & 3. I also was slow to bring my chai-http woes to our professor, when he could have shown me the branch with most of this work done for me.

One change that I’m interested in is finalizing a collection of changes before pulling a merge commit branch. Sometimes we may want to swap to another issue without committing to the current branch or using git stash, and sometimes it became clear we should have split an issue into multiple issues. For sprint 2, we’ve found a work-in-progress workflow where we instead work on a local branch, and then, after we’re ready to push code, create the merge request and set the remote to that remote merge request branch.

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https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/issues/40: The documentation of the project needed to be updated for the Backend

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/issues/41: The directory structure was outdated and needed to be revised for the Backend

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/issues/42: The dev containers needed to be updated to reflect new settings and extensions for the Backend

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/backend/-/issues/43: The pipeline files needed to be adjusted to reflect new standard for the Backend

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem/addinventoryfrontend/-/issues/11: he dev containers needed to be updated to reflect new settings and extensions for the AddInventoryFrontend

Our team worked very well together. We were always in communication on when we needed help and what work we accomplished. The standup meetings were efficient which allowed us to jump straight into the work for the class. Whenever someone needed help with an issue, there was at least one team member available to help out and solve the issue. The way the epics were divided allowed everyone to pick a project that they were comfortable working in, and helping each other out allowed people to delve into different project types.

While everyone was working in a project they felt comfortable in, the way we structured the work didn’t allow us to really experience different project types. I focused on the backend for the entire sprint, so I did not gain much experience in working within any of the front ends or the API. This caused issues when someone asked for help, we didn’t necessarily have all of the answers to help them.

Overall, the team accomplished a lot during the sprint. We completed all of our work before the sprint ended, which gave us time to fix a few major issues we ran into completing the last few issues. For the next sprint, we should focus on spreading out the work through the different projects so that one person doesn’t just work with one project type. The whole team should be experiencing the different projects so that when an individual, even if they are not from our team, should be able to respond and help with the issue. This will also help for future careers, as when we get jobs in the real world we can say that we have experience working in all different types of environments. The different projects also contain different languages which will help with development.

Personally, I put a lot of effort towards my team and towards our work. Next sprint, I should consider spending more time at home doing work so that more of the epic can be completed. I was available most times to respond to my teammates and any other individuals who needed help, but my out of class time could have been spent better working on my own issues and completing them. Now that I am the scrum master for this sprint, I can work on my leadership skills as I did not really show them and use them effectively last sprint. Overall I feel I did well for the sprint, and I learned a lot to be able to enhance this current sprint.

From the blog CS@Worcester – Noelan Chabot's Blog by nchabot1 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.