Fortune Telling with Panda Express

Apr 2023 – Jun 2023 · Wrote the page flow, the first CI workflows and the JSDoc setup (eight-person CSE 110 project)

CSE 110 (Software Engineering) in Spring 2023 put us in a team of eight to practice how software teams work: sprints, sprint reviews and retrospectives, architecture decision records (ADRs) and CI. The product mattered less than the process.

Ours is a parody Panda Express order. You pick a meal size, a side and up to three entrées, and each choice nudges a score. A fortune cookie at the end gives you a fortune to match (good, neutral, bad, romantic or just weird), along with the nutrition totals for your meal.

What I did

The page flow. I wrote the first layout, the page switcher that steps you through the order, and the code that picks your fortune at the end.
CI. I wrote the team's first GitHub Actions workflows: Prettier formatting that commits its own fixes on every push and pull request, and a Jest job. Andrew Masek later replaced them with an npm-based setup that added ESLint, and Jack Montoro wrote the unit tests.
Docs. I added JSDoc comments across the code and wrote the ADR that moved the generated docs into their own repo, so generated files couldn't trip the linter.
The repo. I created it, merged most of the pull requests, and kept our meeting notes, sprint reviews and retrospectives in it. My 72 commits were the most of our 10 contributors.