Zach's Blog

      Over the past two years in CSUMB's Computer Science Online program, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside some of the brightest and most dedicated students, being mentored by supportive professors and advisors, and enhancing my skills as an engineer—all while working full time as a Software Engineer. This program has introduced me to, and demystified, important technologies and processes that I’ve been able to integrate into my professional workflow. Looking ahead, I plan to continue growing as a Software Engineer and pursue a Master's degree in AI.

  What did you accomplish this week? This week I created a formal test procedure document, met with our project advisor to conduct formal testing, compiled the results into a test report, and recorded a demonstration video for our system. Our testing went great. With all tests passing and no assistance required from the team, our advisor noted the convenient layout of our test procedures and careful attention to detail for our parsing application. One important piece of feedback gained during our testing was the desire for a summary report after running our parser application, which has since been integrated into our latest release. What is your plan for next week? Next week I plan to prepare for the capstone festival, update any documentation for our system, and update my demonstration video if necessary.  What challenges, if any, are you currently facing in project development? Do you need instructor assistance?  I'm not facing any challenges at this time. 

  What did you accomplish this week? This week I focused on getting version two of our parser merged and built into an sdist. Following the sdist build I imported it into our STAC Server application and completed updates on our API endpoints to use the updated functions in version two of our parser. After the our server code had been updated, I added a github workflow action file in our STAC Server repository that would automatically build our container image and publish it to docker hub. Following that I pulled the latest image into our test environment, started it, and confirmed our system was working as intended. After preliminary testing was complete I scheduled a meeting with out project advisor to conduct testing. What is your plan for next week? Next week I will refine our test cases to be performed by our advisor, meet with our advisor to conduct our testing, and report on the outcomes of our testing.  What challenges, if any, are you currently facing in project devel...