Wayne was showing me some new query code changes. He is playing with some full text indexes and new searches that play with match and against vs our older like SQL queries. Wayne has pushed up some code to the developer's testing server so that we can play around with the changes. If all works out ok, we will add the full text indexes and new dynamic searches to customers, parts, and sub inventory. Those sections get hit really hard, every day, multiple times a day, per corporation. We'll start there.

Wayne is also working on some other deeper database admin scripts for the sales tax aggregate project that Eric was working on. We are trying to get things pushed up, while maintaining high security credentials. Before the standup meeting, I asked Wayne to show Alan what was going on and a small demo of the new changes. Making progress.

The guys joined and did a sprint review and a small show and tell for their current sprint. It is super close to being all the way done. You could tell that someone still needs to go through and do the last-minute tweaks and what not to basically sweep the floor and fully deploy it. On the positive side, you can tell that the sprints are going much smoother and faster. Other than the semi buggy demo, it really was looking good. Like I said, just a little bit for polish and finesse and it would be perfect. You could tell that the main pieces were there.

During the sprint review, some of the guys were showing some of their creativity and on the fly code building and custom functionality. That was fun and cool to see. The main look and feel was looking good. They are using tons of object oriented code with models, services, DAO's, classes, sub classes, etc.

Alan was showing and talking about some new integration tests and how he was using real database tests on a dummy database, but it was able to use real services, real DAO's, and real flow without hurting live or production databases. As part of that or those tests, he was also doing some clean-up functions during the testing, if he was making extra records for testing. Basically, things are getting better and better, smoother and smoother, and more real life like testing. This helps us look for real bugs and find them quicker and make things tighter and smoother.

We also talked about some of the next steps along the sprint path. Some of this was dealing with planning, testing, bug fixes, and all the way to full deployment. One of the current missing pieces is going through different scenarios and doing some deeper user level testing. We'll get that figured out and push things forward from there.