Week 6

Class:
So now we are on the other side of the exam and boy what an exam that was. There was nothing out of the ordinary. I didn't see anything that wasn't expected. In fact I was somewhat surprised at the difficulty (which wasn't so bad) but I would like to attribute that to myself being adequately prepared. I really liked the new exam format the professor set up. The entire exam was like a giant test suite in which we would have to write the functions along with test cases for our solution. I really liked this set up for several reasons. First of all it didn't require us to know the painfully small details that the previous exam format demanded of us. No more multiple choice requiring us to know what the output would be with the annoying answer choice "does not compile" to make us second guess. The next reason I liked this test was because even if you were dead lost on how to code the solution, you still had the opportunity to write test cases for it and gain some easy points. Finally, this exam was better because it, like other aspects of the class, prepared you for the real world. If you walked out of this exam earning the majority of the points simply from writing test cases, then there is a good indication that you should pursue a Software Development Engineer in Test position (SDET) position rather than just a software development engineer position.

Project:
We were contacted earlier in the week by the grader for IDB1 (Tyler) who informed us that we lost 10 points because our site was down. This was hard to believe because none of us had touched any of the code since the Thursday night turnin and because it was all working fine up until Monday of this past week. The error seems to have been generated from within pythonanywhere as we had seen the site be fairly buggy from the start. We pulled our code using the same SHA that we had used to submit and replicated the site at a new address (also on pythonanywhere) and it miraculously worked... with no changes whatsoever... We explained ourselves to the TA and luckily got back all our lost points. Lets just hope whatever this bug was doesn't show itself again.