Clean Code & Refactoring Quality Boost (v1.1.0)

This release improves code maintainability through Clean Code updates and focused refactoring, reducing complexity and strengthening consistency across the project.

Mastermind Game (v1.0.0)

📦 Release Notes – Mastermind Game (v1.0.0)

These release notes summarize the final deliverables, features, improvements, fixes, and known limitations of the Mastermind Game – Version 1.0.0.

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🎉 Version

v1.0.0 – Final Release (12.12.2025)
This is the final academic project release delivered after Sprint 3.

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✅ What’s Included in This Release

1. Core Features

• Fully implemented Game Engine (bulls & cows logic)
• Complete Command Line Interface (CLI) with:
  • Guess input
  • Bulls & cows scoring
  • Configurable length, alphabet, duplicates
• Initial GUI Prototype (basic input/output window)
• Docker support for running the CLI version

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🛠 Improvements

• Full refactoring of project structure
• Consistent folder layout:

  mastermind/
    engine/
    cli/
    gui/
    tests/
  

• Improved error handling + cleaner CLI messages
• Increased test coverage (core engine + CLI tests)
• Stable, automated CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions)
• Auto-formatting (black, isort) integrated
• Linting (flake8) integrated
• Documentation polished across:
  • README
  • GitHub Wiki (Sprint 1–3, Retrospectives, Backlogs, Architecture Overview)

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🧪 Test & Quality Highlights

• pytest test suite for engine and CLI
• Coverage aligned with Sprint commitments
• CI pipeline executing on push + pull request
• Code style enforced automatically

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🐳 Docker Integration

This release includes:

• Dockerfile for building CLI version
• Ability to run the game in a container:

  docker build -t mastermind-game .
  docker run -it mastermind-game

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🔧 Technical Stack

• Python 3.11
• Typer/argparse (CLI)
• Tkinter (GUI prototype)
• Pytest
• Black, isort, flake8
• GitHub Actions
• Docker (optional build)

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⚠ Known Limitations

• GUI is a prototype (not full visual design)
• No full GUI E2E tests
• Advanced game modes not implemented (moved to Backlog)
• No PyInstaller packaging in this release
• No sound/theme support (optional features)

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📘 Documentation Delivered

• Sprint 1, 2, 3 documentation
• Retro 0–3
• Product Backlog (EPIC + MoSCoW)
• Sprint Backlogs
• Agile Metrics (Velocity, Burndown, Cumulative Progress)
• Architecture Overview (UML + Flowcharts)
• Development Workflow (this release)

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🚀 Final Status

This release completes the full scope defined in:

• Sprint Planning
• Backlog
• Academic project requirements

All deliverables are stable, documented, and ready for submission.

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Release Date: 05.12.2025
Release Manager: Project Team
Status: Final (Closed)