Spit and Polish

Semester 2 Week 12 (4/1-4/8)

This last week has been a little more mellow than the previous weeks have been because we had made the milestones that we had set for ourselves and the class alpha and beta milestones. Reaching these milestones did not mean we stopped working but it meant that our focus has shifted to polish and bug fixing since we are no longer adding features. Changing our focus to bug fixing has shown us that we need to get more and better testing from the school's QA lab.

In testing our practice has previously been to test on PC and Android because the mobile builds lagged behind our PC builds in terms of stability. This practice has meant that bugs tended to go undiscovered for longer on Android and iOS. Now that we are correcting this poor testing practice we are only testing on Android, I am working to make sure that we will also be testing on iOS as well. This shift will improve the quality of our QA feedback since the platforms we are developing for are Android and iOS, the bugs and issues that the testers will be encountering will be relevant and provide more accurate causes to the programmers.