Joshua's Blog

Our final sprint is over, and the course itself will be wrapping up soon as well. Once this semester ends I will be a graduate. Scary. Anyways the sprint itself spanned a month like the other two, formally ending on the 30th of last month. Unlike the last one, this sprint wasn't cut short and lasted the whole month. The sprint had five goals, of which we completed four of them. Firstly, we needed to update our container with the latest dependencies, which would then allow us to carry out the rest of the goals. After that we moved onto what took by far the most time; we all independently drafted a series of tests , which we would then present to the group for us to decide on what was good or bad about each, with the plan of incorporating that knowledge into a 'methodology' for developing subsequent tests. Naturally that leads into our third sprint goal which was to fully write a comprehensive series of tests for the main page (and wherever it lead in the case of e2e tests....

 The semester is less than two weeks from being over now, for our final blog I chose the post “ Testing is not always Black & White ” by Renée Elizabeth Mineart. It has a lot of good insight about one of our course topics that I find interesting, white-box and black-box testing. The post argues that the difference between the two is not always as strict as it is often made out to be. Instead of treating them like completely separate categories, the author explains that testing often exists in a kind of gray area where both perspectives can overlap. That idea stood out to me because it makes testing feel more realistic than the simple definitions we usually start with. I selected this piece because it gives a practical view of the topic we are working with in our team's group for our final assignment, where we are making our own in-class activity based off of a topic of our choice (in this case Black-Box vs White-Box testing). We only briefly touched on this in class, so this bl...