Lofi Sketch for Home Page and accompanying FAQ

Lofi Sketch for Creating an Application as a Student

Lofi Sketch for Viewing Applications as a Faculty

Lofi Sketch for Student Discussions

Lofi Sketch for Account Creation

Sprint 1 Summary: At the end of sprint 1, we completed almost all of the features except for a couple due to insufficient time and planning. One of our members had conflicting workloads with other classes which caused some of the features to not be rolled out in time. For the next sprints we will be having a better planning system and will have a more extended period of time to ensure these mistakes do not happen again. Due to this, some of us were rushed on time to get their feature out which caused one of the features to not have passing tests, which causes lower overall coverage. We failed to noticed this when we were approving for the pull request, so we are looking to implement a way of having tests automatically run so we do not run into this issue in the future, as manually checking the tests is tedious, does not scale well, and allows for errors.

A major error we made when selecting our features for Sprint 1 was that some of our features are not able to be accessed from the homepage directly and have other pages in between that we did not create yet, meaning the only way to access these features is by directly typing in the link. For future sprints we will be more careful to have the flow of pages built correctly so that we do not run into this error.

At the beginning, we also had our main branch unprotected, but have since changed it so that we now need two approvals so that a pull request is authorized. On top of that, we also had issues with the original main needing to be changed which caused some merge conflicts down the line when we did pull requests for all the features, which just added on extra time and tedium. The main repository is now fixed so that this should not be an issue in the future.

Another significant issue this sprint was the overestimation of points for certain features. The home page and FAQ were both overestimated and easier than anticipated. On top of that, two of the features, Create Student Account and Create Faculty Account were both separate features with the same point value given as independent of each other, but since our workflow was having the create student account come first, the majority of the work was already done in the create student account feature, so create faculty account was much easier. We will need to go into our sprint 2 with a better understanding of the actual point values and refactor where necessary. Some stories may also need to be split up as they can encompass larger overall features.

We also had issues with our pivotal tracker layout, as we originally had all of our features put in the same iteration and only accepted the ones we planned to do without putting the other ones in the backlog. We have since changed this so that the current iteration and backlog are seaparated.