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CST 499 - Week 5

This week, our group completed a major milestone in our project by finishing the front end of our application, marking it as a "feature complete". We also conducted our initial round of user acceptance tests and received plenty of useful feedback, comments, and suggestions for the final stages of development and eventual deployment. 

As a test engineer, I also interact with end customers doing software system test, so I understand quite well the process of conducting tests and then signing off said tests if they meet all requirements as specified. Since my company must comply with Department of Defense standards, the "rules of engagement" for testing and product acceptance are much stricter than our standards for capstone, but I can imagine similar rules would be applied to other students doing industry projects. Also, I got my first experience writing a test procedure from scratch by myself, as even at my job I am not responsible for writing procedures but I am accountable for any changes or corrections to future revisions of procedures.

In the next few weeks, our group will be producing our final project video and then presenting it at the end of the class. We have started to gather source material and I have also started planning the technical details of how I am going to compile, edit, and render source material into the final video. I have become much more experienced since the beginning of the program as my editing skills were quite rusty, and one of the largest benefits I have gotten out of the program in general is picking up and polishing my skills again. 



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