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Well we are coming to an end for this class. This class has been a journey but to end it off our class has been working on this last project of ours which is enhancing and fixing a Tetris game. Me and my team are responsible for creating test cases and reviewing code that needs to be pushed/merged into the main branch. The issues we faced throughout this past week have mostly been communication. I feel like we’ve found some minor bugs in the code but it takes a while for people to get to it and fix it. Other than that the other issues I’ve seen is Mac users changing the java version for them and then accidentally committing it to the main branch. I haven’t had any major issues in this project. I think throughout not only this project but this course, I have now a good understanding of Git/Github and recently using maven and implementing it in my system.

So now as the quarter is winding down we are heading into the latter stages of this class. I have had a lot of fun interacting with my team and learning a lot about global software development. To get into the thick of things though I want to talk about Project 3. This past week we were assigned a 3rd and final project to work on but unlike the last two this one consists of my team and 3 other teams. We have a division lead who orchestrates what happens in our team and what needs to be done by a team by team basis. My team is responsible for reviewing and testing the functionality of the code. This week we mainly helped with the design doc a little bit but I also helped familiarize myself with the code. I didn’t talk about that did I, but for this project we are given a Tetris game, our jobs as a whole is to fix the game so that it works properly has as minimal bugs as possible. But, yes I have looked at the code and noted multiple things that were wrong with the game. I think at this point I’ve also become really adept as using GitHub unlike the beginning of the class and I feel very happy.

As I discussed in my last post me and my team have started working on the 2nd project. We were given a design document to implement a spin game for a different team. I was tasked with approving and testing the code before we apply the merges and send over the final implementation. I think the hardest part about this project was understanding what tests were necessary for us to see whether the implementation we had was successful or not as well as understanding merge conflicts and how to avoid them, I avoided them by making a new branch within the already made code and making edits to what was necessary within the tests. But, regardless we made it through and we are on our way to the last project coming up tomorrow.

This next project purpose is to have two teams a design team and a review team both teams play both roles in which we design a project for a team to make and the other team designs a project that we make. We had a team meeting to discuss all the roles and tasks for each of our team members including me. My role is to be a code approver/tester. I will test and approve any code in git and approve and merge pull requests.

The second part for this project was us actually implementing the tests for the methods we selected. All our team members were really collaborative and helpful in any questions or concerns we had. I had some issues pertaining to my tests not compiling but after a little debugging I managed to get them fixed and everything ended up working. I ended up testing stringsets and contain functions for the methods i selected. Using gradle was a pain but it ended up working out.

So we started to finally implement group projects in our class the thing that I was looking forward to the most when Registering for this class. Our first project is pretty basic as we just have to create an outline of what everyone’s roles are and what methods we will be responsible for in terms of unit testing. The first week of this project has been pretty easy as I met up with our group and came up with an action plan and selected out group leader.

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