End of week 3

I finished off the week with two tickets: one was to remove email modals from popping up on certain landing pages and the other to remove some experiment code that we no longer needed.

The email modal was interesting since it required a fairly easy addition to the abandon modal method. Juan directed me there. But the rspec test was hard. Juan left it up to me to figure it out. I wrote 3 different tests, basically copying other tests that were in the file. They all passed but as Juan pointed out, I didn’t know exactly what I was testing for. It was really challenging for me to figure it out on my own so I asked Rachel for help.

This is where I worry because I want to figure things out on my own but literally do not know where to start. I need to work harder and study and ask a lot of questions.

The 2nd ticket seemed pretty straightforward, but I ended up removing too much code and was breaking other things with the codeship tests. Then Aisha got on a call with me and Wales me through how she would approach the ticket, looking back at the ticket where the code as originally written and just remove what they added.

It was a tough week and I need to nail down my basics.