Professional Practice Assignment Report

Professional Practice Assignment #2 was, in many ways, unlike any other project I have done so far in pursuit of this degree; thusly, it was incredibly informative and educational. The time spent writing the code for the 5 functions themselves may have been minimal, but that fact added to the rest of the experience. The assignment did indeed feel as though it was practice for professional life, as such, the bulk of our time was spent communicating amongst one another, researching testing and continuous integration tools, and documenting our research. I truly appreciate that the focal point of the assignment is well placed on the testing, and that is achieved by having the python functions done in advance. Similarly, the project gave the class the chance to learn first-hand about the benefits of continuous integration.
By using different tools, we experienced different conventions and characteristics. For example, Cypress has a great user interface and style; whereas, PyLint was command line and it didn’t have as much variability, because instead of programming it, we had only limited command line flags. …show more content…
From there, we implemented various tools to assist with each step. We used GitHub, Common Gateway Interface for creating HTML pages that use our existing Python functions, PyLint for static analyze, Cypress for end to end testing using JavaScript, and Travis-CI as our continuous integration tool— it continuously checks the repository, and when the code is changed, it runs all of the tests again. Using these tools provided a great experience and challenge; from this, we were able to learn many, many lessons. It is truly incredible that tools used by professionals in this field are free, or in some cases very cheap, for our use. This way, not only do students gain valuable experience, we are gaining experience specifically using tools that will make us stand out from other job