Hardening (Week 15)

No new features. Week 15 is about making what you have reliable, documented, and demonstrable. The goal is to hand off a codebase that a new engineer could clone and run in under ten minutes.

What this week is for

• Fixing bugs that accumulated in the backlog
• Closing open issues that are marked hardening
• Writing the end-to-end test that exercises the full user journey
• Making the README accurate and complete
• Preparing the final demo

End-to-end test (QA leads this)

Write one test in tests/test_e2e.py that walks through the entire application flow:

def test_full_apply_flow(client):
    # 1. Register a user
    # 2. Log in
    # 3. Post a job
    # 4. Log out
    # 5. Apply to the job (as an unauthenticated user)
    # 6. Log in as admin
    # 7. Verify the application appears in /applications
    # 8. Update the application status to "accepted"
    # 9. Verify the status change is reflected

This test must pass before the final demo.

README update (PM leads this)

The README.md must include:

• [ ] Project description (one paragraph)
• [ ] Tech stack list
• [ ] Local setup instructions (copy-pasteable, tested on a fresh machine)
• [ ] All required environment variables with descriptions
• [ ] How to run tests
• [ ] How to deploy to Render
• [ ] A link to the live deployment
• [ ] The CI status badge

Bug triage

Go through every open issue. For each one:

• If it can be fixed in < 2 hours: fix it and open a PR
• If it cannot be fixed this week: close it with a comment explaining why and label it wont-fix
• Do not leave issues open with no comment

Final demo preparation

The final demo (recorded video, posted to Canvas) should show:

1. A job seeker browsing jobs and filtering by location
2. A job seeker applying for a role
3. An admin logging in and seeing the dashboard stats
4. An admin updating the application status
5. The analytics charts

Keep the demo under 5 minutes. Use the deployed Render URL — not localhost.

Hardening checklist

• [ ] uv run pytest passes with no warnings
• [ ] uv run ruff check . passes with no errors
• [ ] uv run pyright passes with no errors
• [ ] End-to-end test is merged and passing
• [ ] README.md is complete and accurate
• [ ] Live deployment URL is in the README
• [ ] All open issues are either fixed or closed with wont-fix
• [ ] Final demo video is posted to Canvas