2021-07-21 Retrospective Spitfire

2021-07-21 Retrospective Spitfire

 

Date

Jul 21, 2021

Participants

@Oleksii Petrenko @Natalia Zaitseva   @Pavlo Smahin  @Владислав Велицкий  @Oleksandr_Dekin @Khalilah Gambrell @Maryna Zhuravlova @Mariia_Sychova

 

Retrospective

 

What did we do well?

  • Started work on storing MARC Holdings +1

  • Complete lots of tasks during last sprint +1

  • Reduce time to code review at FE team

  • Doodles are cool at standup

  • Excellent communication in the team

  • Testing is follow with out impediments

  • Khalilah is responding to questions really fast

  • Some work are released by Folijet team

  • No context switching and turbulent

  • Great job with MARC Holdings and requirements understanding

  • Significant progress with Karate, Jest/RTL and E2E

  • Validation spikes provide excellent understanding for all 

  • Maryna's work helps to identify some hided defects

 

What should we have done better?

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Actions

 

June 2021

Request verification of Folijet related work at A-M
Requirements for QM Hot Fix were changed too often
Be consistent regarding QM changes
Test changes as soon as possible
Lot's of pressure, need to think how to deal with it better
Hard to get logs from bugfest. Logs are posted to S3 bucket only one an hour.

May 2021

Difficult to test DI with Rancher
DI testing is challenge to the team 
Issues with Holdings are still happened
Pay more attention to scratch env and prioritize work related to maintenance. Create a Jira tickets for resolving scratch env issues
Provide test data to create good enough tests of SRS Search API

April 2021

Revisit DoD
There is no clarity regarding way of resolving deriving of MARC bib functionality
Rancher env gets broken // 
Unexpected P1 bug related to SRS

February 2021

RTL tests bring more complexity and additional code refactoring to eHoldings → All required refactoring effort should be visible and should be added to Jira → @Denys Bohdan
Spring improvements will be part of team work→ Conduct meeting with people which are interested in Spring and ready to assist with required changes → @Oleksii Petrenko  

January 2021

Work on improvement of integration tests
Spend more time for testing 

December 2020

Password development took longer than usual. Are there ways for the entire team to better understand complexity and level of effort to help with backlog prioritization? → Break down all tasks and not hide non-functional work at functional stories → Team
Several issues has been identified at Honeysuckle, need to verify clean setup also → @Oleksii Petrenko
Add more resources to scratch env → @Oleksii Petrenko
Verify multi tenancy during release preparation period → @Oleksii Petrenko  

November 2020

Caused additional challenges with rancher env setup → Reach out to @Stanislav Miroshnichenko
Not clear how to work with permissions (Workaround is used for now) → @Stanislav Miroshnichenko

October 2020

DT - In general module releases went well, but one issue (with logging) was not payed attention to immediately. This led to additional patch releases of several modules/libraries - Move to Release retrospective → @Oleksii Petrenko
Additional time is required for get practice with Rancher for successful roll out → Team
Rancher service should put some notifications regarding resources stopping and allocation. Reach out to @Sergiy Vysotskiy and @Stanislav Miroshnichenko@Oleksii Petrenko

August 2020

50% Validate prepared stories quicker when it is deployed to Snapshort environment → @Khalilah Gambrell @patty.wanninger
Issue with MOD-USER-IMPORT: Expectation of user is contradict with team's one
Validate requirements by User Management SIG group or PO(Ian Walls) from MOD-USER-IMPORT before presenting them to the team → @Khalilah Gambrell

July 2020

Bugfix release cause misunderstanding when working with different jira projects and different git projects.
Post new process instruction to Spitfire channel
Need stabilize release process

June 2020

Prepare possible plan for extending current testing approach → @Denys Bohdan @maksym_dryha @Владислав Велицкий  
Verify affected areas manually → Team
Report issues to stripes team while development → Team
Check all acceptance criteria while dev testing → Team, @Khalilah Gambrell
Sync with BE team and dependency detection → Team
Part of definition of done (Include accessibility testing to testing activities by FE team) → @Oleksii Petrenko
Run accessibility checker more frequently and include it to CI pipeline (Run once in the sprint by FE team) → FE team
Clarify more carefully hidden scenarios in acceptance criteria → Team, @Khalilah Gambrell
Create stories more carefully to avoid situation that we missed some at the end → Team, @Khalilah Gambrell
Include to release preparation plan interface update for 2 weeks before release deadline (Bump up latest version of interfaces were too later) → @Oleksii Petrenko