Day In Review

We started the morning off with an iteration planning meeting. I was able to demo the nearly complete workflow which was good. After the meeting I was able to pin down the workflow, with all acceptance tests, integration tests, regression tests, and unit tests for the feature around the payments. I was able to delineate between system errors (exceptions) and user input errors (sad paths that lead to error messages) which is good because it allows the user interface to provide a feedback loop for the user while blowing up loudly if the system does not work as expected.

I was also able to pair with Brian today and do some really nice refactorings. The controller action for payment went from 19 lines to 7 lines, which was great. We were also able to build a validations module for the input in order to move some of that responsibility away from the controller. I started working with the UI and plan on continuing UI work and hopefully be finished before lunch tomorrow.