Sprint 7 Retrospective: Quality Gates & Human Experience

Summary of Sprint 7: Quality Gates and Human Experience

Sprint Overview:

• Objective: Validate the quality of the platform through integration tests and prepare for UI development.
• Key Activities:
  • Wiring up 118 services and validating them with source inspection.
  • Implementing HTTP integration tests to ensure correct runtime behavior.
  • Escalating memory enforcement from advisory warnings to blocking gates.
  • Preparing for the final sprint (Sprint 8) focused on UI development.

Key Achievements:

• Service Wiring: Successfully wired up all services and validated them through source inspection.
• Integration Tests: Implemented HTTP integration tests to ensure correct runtime behavior of services.
• Memory Enforcement: Escalated memory enforcement from advisory warnings to blocking gates for stricter compliance.
• UI Preparation: Prepared the groundwork for UI development by extracting route modules from a monolithic file.

Lessons Learned:

1. Phased Execution Order Matters: Infrastructure tasks must be completed before integration tests can be run effectively.
2. Right-Sizing Scope Preserves Quality: Reducing scope to match validated velocity prevents quality erosion.
3. Source Inspection is Necessary but Not Sufficient: Source

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