2021-10-25 Retrospective Spitfire
Date | Oct 25, 2021 |
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Participants | @Oleksii Petrenko @Natalia Zaitseva @Владислав Велицкий @Khalilah Gambrell @Mariia_Sychova @Shans Kaluhin @Denys Bohdan @Igor Gorchakov |
Retrospective
What did we do well?
Small amount of bugfix issues +
Collaboration with Falcon team at Authority search development
Shans speeding up Karate tests development
Few defects were identified during Karate tests development
MARC Holdings development is completed
Mikhail provided excellent guidance with Authority search discovery
All modules has been released in time
BE team gave excellent support to Shans, thanks a bunch!
Optimistic Locking integration has been done
What should we have done better?
Rancher env preparation is team pain ++++++++++
Anything related to DI should be communicated to A-M and Folijet team
Think about goals for features testing
Actions
September 2021
Experienced Senior DevOps env is required to maintain rancher env
Cost optimization for Rancher env to reduce lack of memory
Gather team's amount of time that is required to sort out rancher issues
Discuss with community/ Anton following suggestion - "Karate tests for not used modules should be skipped"
Review possibility to deactivate unused modules
August 2021:
Completion of MARC Holdings development will be close to Kiwi release deadline
Rancher env is not stable
Provide overview how karate/jest/rtl help to identify regression issues
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