Team Status Report for 4/2

This week the PCBs finally came in, and we performed a lot of team work since we worked together on soldering the components. However, one issue came up, which is that the wrong decoders had been ordered, so we are now waiting for the new ones to come in so that we can finish assembling the PCBs. The most significant risk right now is the arrival time of the decoders since we cannot move forward with physical testing until these arrive. One mitigation plan that was developed this week was to create more advanced software tests that can simulate physical data. This should help the debugging process once the physical testing begins, and this is important since the physical testing is probably the most time consuming component remaining. No changes were made to the design of the system this week. As far as the schedule, as long as the decoders come in soon, nothing should change. As long as they are delayed, everything else will be pushed back, and the new software testing will fill the gap.