2022-03-16 Spitfire Retrospective

Date	16 Mar 2022
Participants	Khalilah Gambrell Pavlo Smahin Igor Gorchakov Viacheslav Kolesnyk Yahor Sviarchkou Mariia_Sychova Svitlana Dmitry Aleh_Liameshka Natalia Zaitseva

Retrospective

ui-marc-authoritites finally gets TC approval
Mikita's helps as well as help from UI guys from other teams are highly appreciated!
Special thanks to Valery to help with tests and patience.

review current DoR and DoD and our related processes
too long preparation of Vagrant box for schema upgrade testing. We should think about other approach for this testing (local Docker, Rancher)
Vagrant boxes are using for local testing now, but there is so much problems and restrictions with Vagrant (using a lot of resources: at least 15gb of RAM, impossibility of using new versions of Docker, new versions of VirtualBox could cause crashes of box, impossibility of using some useful for development features on Windows like WSL, a lot of time for up and run box, complicated procedure of module deployment). We should think about other approach for local testing (docker compose that will up infrastructure, auth-modules and only needed business modules)
mod-quick-marc logging should be improved
each feature should include Karate tests
self-evaluation document misleading (based on Module acceptance criteria template I tried to create a PR in that repo, but self-evaluation results should instead be saved in an online Word document and the link added to technical evaluation Jira ticket)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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