Wikimedia Apps/Team/Retrospectives/2016-12-02
December 2, 2016
Previous Retrospective Actions
edit- [MICHAEL, STEPHEN] Get password for true crypt volume TO BE CARRIED OVER
- [MICHAEL] Make a spike ticket to explore the retrofit-mock module's networking error mocking capabilities and add more error cases to unit tests DONE
- [NATALIA] Reschedule grooming (around other rescheduling) DONE++
- [STEPHEN] Create a tech debt Phab ticket for Mocked service tests DONE
Significant Events
editLacked
editLearned
edit- More about screenshot testing
- Testing against fixed data leads to more stable test executions.+
- The immense power+ and prestige of TextViews: HTML subset and spannables support
- Now that's what I call Real Ultimate Power!
- How to checkout stuff in gerrit properly and view on Genymotion!
Loved
edit- Documented coding conventions!
- Needs to be more of a team convention
- Huge emphasis on testing
- New meeting schedule+ +1
- Announcements in feed (remote-controllable by us)+
- Designer using Gerrit+AS
- Good designer support in phab (checking tickets, making tickets)
Longed For
edit- Probably would be better to talk about test strategies more as a team in hangout, not just code review
- Less flaky CI
- Less flaky service tests
- A way to trigger the periodic test build on demand from Gerrit, a la 'recheck' or 'check experimental'+
Questions
edit- Phab ticketing with Design?
- Addition of a 'Ready for development' column
- Does this mean 'To do' should be something else? "Tasks from Product Backlog" is called in iOS, Reading web has "Needs analysis" and "To do"
- Discuss adding a 'Blocked or waiting' column
- Design sign-off tickets
- Open forum on any other aspects to better faciliate working with Design on Phab
- Asynchronous TSG check-in in the face of rescheduled meetings?+
- Asynchronous e-mail/IRC check-in with TSG
- A few days notice if team wants TSG in a meeting
- Kanban check-in - how's it going?
- Rescheduling - any changes?
- Moving to Differential code reviews -- a priority or not?+
Action Items
edit- [DMITRY] Get the beta done re "[MICHAEL, STEPHEN] Get password for true crypt volume"
- [MICHAEL] Get password for true crypt volume
- [STEPHEN] add meeting to talk more about testing and conventions
- [STEPHEN] add spike to investigate mock web server / localhost / best practice for mocked service tests and update mock service task
- [NATALIA] to add a new "Blocked/Waiting" column
- [NATALIA] to facilitate a discussion about items in the "Questions" sections that weren't discussed (e-mail)
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