Week 16: Hardening

Phase: Hardening Due by Friday: End-to-end test PR merged + README update PR merged

Goal

No new features. Make what you have reliable, documented, and demonstrable. Leave the codebase in a state where a new engineer could clone it and be productive in under 10 minutes.

Monday

Triage every open issue:

• Can be fixed this week (< 2 hours): Assign yourself, open a PR
• Cannot be fixed this week: Close it with a comment explaining why, label it wont-fix
• Belongs in a future version: Close it with a comment, label it future

Do not leave issues open with no comment. A well-maintained issue tracker is part of the final grade.

Tuesday–Wednesday

QA — end-to-end test (tests/test_e2e.py):

Write one test that exercises the complete user journey:

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

This test must be merged and passing before the demo.

PM — README update:

The README.md must have all of the following:

• [ ] One-paragraph project description
• [ ] Complete tech stack list
• [ ] Copy-pasteable local setup instructions (test on a fresh machine or Codespace)
• [ ] All required environment variables with descriptions
• [ ] How to run tests
• [ ] How to deploy to Render
• [ ] Link to the live deployment
• [ ] CI status badge

Thursday

Do a final pass on the deployed site. Walk through the full user journey — job seeker, applicant, admin, analytics — and note anything broken. Fix what you can; close everything else as wont-fix.

Friday

• End-to-end test PR merged and CI green
• README update PR merged
• Final PR count and review count are locked at 11:59pm tonight
• The grading script runs over the weekend

Week 16 checklist

• [ ] All open issues are closed or labeled wont-fix / future
• [ ] End-to-end test is merged and passing in CI
• [ ] README.md is complete and accurate
• [ ] Live deployment URL is in the README
• [ ] uv run pytest, ruff check, and pyright all pass with no errors