I’ve decided that I’m just not right in the head…remember that defect user story I was scoping out—the Penalty Payments from Hell? We were having our checkpoint this morning, and we were discussing backlog items. One person grabbed the Integration story (oh, DARN). That left my nemesis. Remind me never, ever again to jump in feet first during a lull in the meeting conversation. As no one else was leaping up and down for the payments defect story, YOURS TRULY decided to be plucky and volunteer to do it. Granted, I did indicate that I might need help, but in looking it over, I think I’m going to need a BOATLOAD of help. For one thing, l have no real way to duplicate the issue on my local machine, due to having no connection for checks. I think I’ll need to see if there’s some way to fake a check payment going through—otherwise, I’ll never see what’s happening with the button behavior.
Thankfully, the release date for this is March. I think my first plan of attack will be to go over this with our product owner and our BA, to make sure I’m understanding what I’m supposed to be fixing in the first place. I realize I probably should have come to that conclusion at 9:00 a.m. this morning, rather than at 5:00 p.m., after an entire day of trying to trace through tons of code in an attempt to understand the general process. The good news is that I think I’ve pinpointed where the roles and security get determined in the code…
One a more cheery note, I had my knitting group this evening, and I’m finally done with both sleeves and body of my sweater! I just have to now join everything for the yoke.