December 2024 monthly summary for roberto-lumbreras/P4-Gijon-Project-FunkoShop-Backend. Focused on establishing a secure authentication foundation and strengthening the test suite to improve quality and CI reliability, setting the stage for scalable product/category features and future security enhancements. Key highlights: - Business value delivered: Implemented a foundational authentication and user-management scaffold to enable secure access, role-based authorization, and downstream product features. This reduces risk for new feature delivery and supports user lifecycle management. - Technical achievements: Built the UserAuthentication and Management System with UserService scaffold, User entity, Role enum, UserDTO, password encoding, and associated unit tests. Implemented and committed foundational work across two commits, including test enhancements for repository/service integration and mocking capabilities (commits e8d6748c8e7f82c80bdc29dd8a3c89379833a37c and e74aba08ac4cde0d99b79c0a3d9672b183d163bf). - Test quality improvements: Refactored and enhanced tests for Category and Product controllers to use Mockito annotations and JUnit 5 lifecycle methods; standardized Product test naming to ProductTests; improved setup and consistency. Commit: 9bbe94169de824b228558d79d3b6202d495374cc (Added Testing Category). - Overall impact: Strengthened code quality, security basics, and test reliability, enabling faster, safer delivery of product, category, and related backend features. Positioning the backend for more complex features with reduced regression risk. - Technologies/skills demonstrated: Java backend development, JPA/Hibernate (implied by User entity), test-driven development, JUnit 5, Mockito, test refactoring, unit testing, and basic security encoding patterns.

November 2024: Delivered key quality and security improvements across two repositories, focusing on robust unit testing for user management and stability of authentication/file path resolution. These efforts reduce production risk and support future feature velocity.