May 2025 monthly summary focusing on delivering end-to-end features for menu and review management, hardening data access controls, and improving deployment reliability. Key outcomes include: UCSBMenuItemReview admin UI, API, and tests; review and menu item retrieval APIs with tests; removal of latitude/longitude from dining commons data and related test updates; automation of review moderation with standardized status updates; CI/CD documentation deployment reliability enhancements with retry logic and test coverage improvements. Business value: increased admin capability, secure and streamlined data access, simplified data model, faster and more reliable deployments, and higher software quality.

Month: 2025-04 — Delivered end-to-end UCSB Menu Item Reviews System in the repository ucsb-cs156-s25/team02-s25-04. Key components include a backend CRUD API with role-based access control, a frontend React form for creating/updating reviews, and test fixtures to support development and testing. No major defects were reported this month; the work focuses on delivering business value through secure, testable user reviews and streamlined feature delivery.