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Project management

First Iteration

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Iteration 1 Start

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Iteration 1 End Iteration 1 End

The Four Questions:

What went well?

  • We were able to finish all the planned issues for the iteration.
  • We finally managed to work with firebase authentication service without problems.
  • We were able to work with all the technologies we wanted to use for this iteration.
  • We got the interface closer to the mockups.
  • We managed to produce organized code and made code reviews.

What didn't go so well?

  • We got some awkward commits and some problems when working with many people in the same issue.
  • It was hard to start working with some flutter widgets and its specifications e.g. ListView's height and width constraints.
  • The infinite scrolling on the Search Page gave us some problems.
  • It was difficult to understand how to update a stateful widget within another stateful widget.
  • We didn't have time to improve on the things that didn't go so well on iteration 0.

What have we learned?

  • We learned how to work with API's.
  • We learned how to work with providers in flutter.
  • We learned how to use the ThemeData.
  • We learned how to use the Navigator.
  • We learned how to plan an iteration.
  • We learned how to use the firebase authentication service.
  • We learned how to protect the main branch of a repository.

What still puzzles us?

  • We still haven't figured out how to use the firebase realtime database.
  • Some details in flutter are still confusing.
  • It's difficult to know how a widget updates other widgets with state.
  • It's confusing to know how we should organize the code i.e. which widgets should we extract as another component.

Second Iteration

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Iteration 2 Start Iteration 2 Start

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The Four Questions:

What went well?

  • We managed to make one of the most important pages for our app - the game page!
  • We finally got the database to work.
  • We started testing the majority of the components we had created.

What didn't go so well?

  • Gherkin tests were hard to write.
  • We shouldn't have planned to do so much since we knew we had two busy weeks ahead of us.

What have we learned?

  • We know how to develop unit tests and the basics of Gherkin tests.
  • We managed to learn how to use the database although some more digging is needed.
  • We learned how to use the Form widget in flutter and how to create custom FormFields.
  • We feel a bit more proficient in Flutter overall.
  • We learned how to use the mockito package.

What still puzzles us?

  • We still haven't grasped all the details about acceptance tests with Gherkin.
  • We still don't know how to move between pages effectivily in Gherkin tests.
  • We aren't sure if fetching data from the cloud firestore should be an asynchronous action or not.

Third Iteration

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Iteration 3 Start Iteration 3 Start

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Iteration 3 End


The Four Questions:

What went well?

  • We have a very important new page: the user page!
  • The user can now delete a review he previously wrote
  • We added a feature to recover the password through email.
  • Fixed some bugs with reviews not appearing and text overflow bugs
  • Any user can go to a user's page by tapping on his email on one of his reviews
  • A user can go to a game page by tapping the name of the game on a user's review
  • Updated the reviews UI

What didn't go so well?

  • We had trouble making the game page smoother.
  • We refactored the login and register pages and we had some problems with updating the error message shown.
  • We had trouble with mocking the CachedNetworkImage widget as it doesn't let us run widget tests due to its http calls which hindered our progress.
  • Dealing with Cloud Firestore's mockups wasn't an easy task.

What have we learned?

  • We learned how to use firebase to recover the password through email.
  • We found an alternative to FutureBuilder which makes UX better.
  • We got more familiar with the cloud firestore service (because of the user functionality / reviews).
  • We once again mocked some services to test the UI.
  • We got better at managing state in flutter

What still puzzles us?

  • We still don't know how to separate the page navigation logic from the nav_bar, and that causes some trouble.
  • We still haven't figured out how to mock the CachedNetworkImage widget functionality
  • Dealing with Cloud FIrestore's mocks still isn't trivial.

Fourth Iteration

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Iteration 4 Start

End of the iteration

Iteration 4 End


The Four Questions:

What went well?

  • We have completed the game page, which is one of the most important pages of the app.
  • We managed to make most of the new features, even with a lot of other projects ongoing.

What didn't go so well?

  • We coulnd't finish all the tests we wanted to do because we prioritized the features.
  • Other projects took a lot of time from this one, so we couldn't do as much as we wanted.

What have we learned?

  • We understand how to use the cloud firestore service better.
  • We had contact with LocalStorage and we understand how to use it.

What still puzzles us?

  • We had some trouble with the tests, so we still don't know how to test some of the widgets we have.