Monday 28 July 2014

Query Strings and more Unit Tests

While front-end work is always fun and demonstration-friendly more frequently than functional coding, all those pretty icons, animations, and colour schemes wouldn't be very useful without any backend code to provide purpose for their presence.

My work was focused on implementing pre-production logic in the session/authentication data handler functions to accept query string data (that comes in on the address bar) as well as standard cookie data. This was added to increase the flexibility of MakeDrive to be able to cater to such things as firefox extensions sending incoming verification data.

The rest of last week revolved around adding more unit tests to increase the comprehensiveness of the existing test suite in conformity to the complete overhaul of the client and server communications that are now completely reliant on Websockets. I was particularly concentrated on adding more test cases for the sync messages being passed back and forth.

In the usual cadence of things, overall the week was very tasking but ultimately very productive. MakeDrive is just about ready to be deployed out to the public, and after a design overhaul by the Mozilla UI/UX team, Nimble will follow soon thereafter.

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