These last few days in Krakow have been amazing. In regards to our work we got to do a presentation in front of all the developers and the owner of the company which was a great opportunity to have. Jose and I presented our slides and the info we gathered to them and they seemed very interested, especially when I pointed out that we found a bug. Alongside the work we also managed to get in a lot of tours within the last few days. We went to Auschwitz and went to the salt mines. Auschwitz was such a amazing experience to visit with such an erie feel. The place has such a horrific background and salt mines were fantastic. The tour guide gave us such in depth details about the places we visited and the information was truly amazing. -Evan-
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We start using a recorder tool that came with the visual studio (this tool auto generated the coded test) but we figured out that it's easy to setup the test if we hand wrote the code. Currently we are trying both methods as we are able to setup some tests but we take our time because we don’t know much about the methods used in the test tools. We spend most of the time trying to figure out which methods to use, this is great as well because we have to solve problems because there is no specialist on the automated test within the company , so we have to look up the web for the information, there is plenty of information.
Half of the company is really busy as there are no programmers in because they have a convention this week where they show all the products they have developed. They are always really friendly with us , I feel like I have always worked here. -Jose Retamal- FInally we have finished all our testing and we completed our presentation for all the GM programming team. We talked for around 35 minutes about what we did in work experience and we answered some questions from our audience. They said that the feedback was good and this will help the company for future projects in automated testing. We also find a bug and we were able to find it using the automated test. We were nervous before the presentation but everything went well and I feel we did our best and the result was very good. Next we have to sort the code and send it for feedback for probable use in the future and after that we can relax on Saturday before we fly back to ireland Sunday morning. -Jose Retamal- We have made great advance in our tests ,I think we will be done on time. This wednesday we have to do a presentation where we have to talk to all the programming teams about what we do and give feedback about the gym manager application. We are a little bit nervous about the talk but it's going to be all right as we have prepared well. We have worked in teams (Evan and me) for doing the tests so we will do the presentation together. I think this is our last challenge and we are ready for it now. The teamwork subject has helped us to prepare for this. Overall, the weather is really nice this week , we have around 19 degrees in the morning and 25 during the day.
-Jose Retamal- We are stating our main project this week where we have to set up automatised tests for the gym manager software. I feel we can do it as we have the tools, time and of course the desire and overall this is an excellent challenge. Our first step is get to know the app then start setting up the automatised tests, and the main scope is to give feedback about better ways to setup the tests. The weather is getting much better and the way we need to work is much easier now and we feel very comfortable at our work placement.
The weather is getting warmer every day, but in the office there is an air conditioner. We buy our breakfast in a nice coffee place made in an old tram on our way to work, they make nice sandwiches. In work we finish our instructive project and we are starting the main project. In the new project we have to set up an automatised test for an app that they made , we just learn the basics and they give us two days to get comfortable on that. This is very interesting because we can run another program using code and this is like a new feature that is bringing some good improvement in the software development area. Today was the birthday of Mateusza , we all say happy birthday to him and we enjoy some cakes together. Overall the day is cloudy with a little bit of rain but always warm. -Jose Retamal- The Gym Manager App
Thank god it’s SUNDAY, the only day where you can sleep in, especially when it's Krakow. Today was a great day. Evan and I went on a 2 hour Segway tour around Krakow, including the quarry, mountains, off-roading, it was called “Off-Road Extravaganza”. The name says it all. You could see all of Krakow from the top, it was pretty amazing. If we hadn't went on that trip, I wouldn't have known that such place even existed in Krakow. After that jack, Evan and I went out for dinner in the galleria. What a place, never seen a shopping centre as big as this one. Definitely coming back to Krakow.....ye don't know what ye're missing out on guys!
I feel very lucky for the chance to come to a millenary city as Krakow is, there is evidence of a Stone Age settlements on the present site of the Wawel Hill and the first written record of the city is dated at 965. Saturday I went to the to the National Museum, this is at 5 minutes walk from our accommodation, there I got the chance to have a little taste of the history of this great city. Where I went to The Gallery “Arms and Uniforms in Poland” , The Gallery of Decorative Art and The Gallery of 20th-Century Polish Art. Sunday we got up early to get one of the limited tickets for the wawel castle that is at 5 minutes walking from our accommodation as well. There I visited the Crown Treasury and Armoury(Ground floor of the castle), Royal Private Apartments(1st floor of the Castle), State Rooms (2nd floor of the Castle), Exhibition The Lost Wawel , after I looked ar the original painting by Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" for finish with a walk in the Dragon’s Den. -Jose Retamal- Its Friday!
Today we continued with the designing of our coded UI tests, we got familiar with how to set up our test programs and how to run them. We finished the first test program and we are now moving on to another one which a developer has given us. It is quite tricky to make, we spent most the evening trying different ways and reading different pieces on it from different websites....but tonight we shall go out and see the bands play in the centre of krakow! -Evan Today we started to work with the graphic interface, they work with the .NET framework where we use xaml to display the graphics and C sharp for the algorithms . This is like java with xml , so the Mobile Technology course is helping us a lot . They were pretty busy today, we can’t really help yet but I do not feel that we interfere at all. They are always friendly and they give the little time that we need to get instructions . For lunch we ask for chinese and eat in the office. Overall the day was really nice, sunny but not too suffocating. We probably will go to lunch in the square tonight.
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