May 2025 monthly summary for hackwestern/hackwestern focusing on authentication coverage improvements. Key features delivered: added comprehensive Authentication Verification Coverage Tests for the auth.checkVerified function, covering scenarios where a user is not logged in, has an unverified email, and has a verified email, ensuring the function correctly reports verification status. This work enhances reliability of authentication state reporting and provides guardrails for future authentication features. Major bugs fixed: none recorded; the month’s focus was on expanding test coverage rather than patching defects. Overall impact and accomplishments: increased confidence in verification logic, reduced risk of false negatives/positives in auth.checkVerified, and improved CI feedback through a robust test suite. Technologies/skills demonstrated: test-driven development, edge-case scenario testing, maintainable test suite design, and commit-level traceability.