Day 11

Over halfway through with our bootcamp. Time has really goes by fast when you're working on something new and complex. Mondays stand-up is always the hardest, because the 2 day break usually throws a wrench into the mix. Stand-up worked well as a refreshment on what we were working on and gave us an overview of the fact, that while we are closing in on finishing our stories, the testing has not yet been even started.

Even though this was the case we decided to finish the story as they were separate enough to not need any testing in between stories. I decided to unit test the logic of one of my more critical functions and as I didn't know much about testing this took a bit longer than expected. With some further complications presenting themselves during writing the tests it took me until lunch.

After lunch we had a seminar about UX&UI. The lecture part of the seminar went through the lifecycle of UX projects. It gave us recommendations how to create a better UX for the user without needing user input at every step.

The main emphasis was on seeing the problem and process through the eyes of the user not the eyes of the developer.

Some were excited about the lecture

Others had other ideas about it.

After the lecture we got to show our UI to our lecturer and get actual feedback. By sheer luck .net team went first and out of the feedback we got some good points, that we can include in our future stories. Unluckily for Java team the time ran out, so they had to rush their presentation. For this reason or maybe they just did a really good job, but the feedback was all positive and no changes were needed to be made.

And the rest of the day we wrestled with some inconsistencies with test data and real data. With some workarounds we got a testable and a working solution.