In 2017, I was one of the four luckiest students selected for the WSO2 10-Year Customer Anniversary Undergraduate Scholarship Program. It was a fully-funded program that allows selected students to obtain a degree in Software Engineering from the prestigious University of Westminster in London, UK, via the Informatics Institute of…

How I groomed a new team to handle 3.x E2E tests at OpenMRS — My previous summer was spent with Google Summer of Code, working with OpenMRS. The project was to develop E2E tests for the OpenMRS 3.x Refapp. After which I continued contributing to the project for several weeks before taking a brief break to focus on publishing my research project. When I…

Google Summer of Code 2020 Project — Final Report — Project Title: E2E Automated Tests for the OpenMRS 3.0 RefApp Primary mentor: Kaweesi Joseph Backup mentor: Brandon Istenes Student: Jayasanka Weerasinghe Project Link: GSoC 2021: E2E Automated Tests for the OpenMRS 3.0 RefApp Overview As a result of the Microfrontend Team’s tireless efforts, OpenMRS will soon have its new edition “OpenMRS…

My Google Summer of Code Journey — Week 9 — My GSoC project is in its ninth week. The main focus of this week was to get the mutation issue fixed. More details on this task can be found in my previous week’s update. After further investigation, I discovered that the webservices.rest module is not starting up with the server…

My Google Summer of Code Journey — Week 8 — This week was a little unsatisfying because I was stuck on a single task for an extended period of time. As previously discussed, the plan was to run a 3.x frontend on top of a 2.x container to avoid data mutations. However, it didn’t go well. Here’s the PR for…

My Google Summer of Code Journey — Week 7 — This is the seventh week of my GSoC project. Since my Kawesi passed away, Brandon became my primary mentor. We had a call last Thursday to plan the next steps of the project. Here are the defined key milestones: EOW July 26 Solution for data mutation management Registration Workflow EOW…

The sudden death of my beloved GSoC mentor — It was 5:40 pm on my time last Friday. I received a message from Juliet; one of my colleagues at OpenMRS. “My bro, pray for Joseph Kawesi, the building has collapsed to him. I can’t tell his state for am just rushing there to join Kayiwa. God be with you.” …

After going through a lot of trials and errors, I was able to complete writing E2E tests for the login, patient search and patient registration workflows. The goal of the task was to give users confidence that the Login, Search & Registration workflows of the RefApp 3.x are working as…

This is my 4th week of Google summer of code. The main focus of this week was to complete and end to end test for the patient registration flow. There are two scenarios for the patient registration flow. One is searching for a patient, while the other is registering one. …