2021-12-15 Retrospective Spitfire
Retrospective
What did we do well?
- Slava and Svitlana joined the team!!!
- Found and fix bugs before release
- NO issues for Juniper and low issues for Kiwi
- Collaboration with Folijet and Falcon team was/is really fruitful
- Agreement to take responsibility for mod-search
What should we have done better?
- Environments are not stable as previous versions related to data-import process
- Update Oleksandr_Dekin documentation describing the data-import flow for Holdings with diagrams (for Morning Glory release)
Actions
November 2021
- Is Rancher still worth using?
- Check if issue is really a bug before release(mod-password-validator)
- Improve ticket tracking for upcoming release
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