Sprint 1 retrospective

Sprint 1 (07.01.17 - 01.02.17)

Release notes

• simplest pizza slicing algorithm that works correctly for example.in only.
• basic automation for pizza task submission based on selenium browser extension. Java based automatisation failed due to difficulties with authorization.This direction has being considered not perspective.

Retrospective

What went well:

• Most productive work approaches were live meetups and full day coding after algorithms determined in common.
• Pair programming on sophisticated algorithm parts
• Performance was considered not the main goal, but readability and code modularity, OOP usage vs procedural programming
• TDD usage where it's possible
• Intuitive logging
• Pseudo code usage during the algorithm prototyping
• Good visualisation in the draw.io simplified knowledge sharing
• Wide Java 8 functional features usage(streams, filters, min, max, count, Optional)

What can be better:

• improve toString for Step.class readability
• avoid duplication in Slice.class step* methods(use an enum or specific StepDirection entity)
• method getAllAvailable steps isn't suitable for big pizza arrays. Need co customise it semantic
• improve pizza parsing performance preferring work with arrays vs works with strings

Acknowledgment

I would like to express my gratitude to:

• Mariia Perepelytsia - organisational aspects,participating in the algorithm design
• Vadim Klindukhov - participating in coding
• Yaroslav Tuzhans'kij - participating in coding

Special thanks to Svytoslav Huk for active participating in all the stages of the algorithm design to coding during the whole last weekend.