Cheah Jing Feng - Project Portfolio Page

Overview

FastScheduler (FS) is a desktop app for restaurant managers to schedule employees for work, optimised for use via a Command Line Interface (CLI) while still having the benefits of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). If you can type fast and prefer typing, FS can help you manage the schedules of employees and shifts faster than traditional GUI apps.

Summary of Contributions

• Code contributed: RepoSense link

Given below are details of my contributions to the project.

New Features

Implemented FileManager class

Contains:

• saveEmployees and saveShifts methods
  • What it does: to save the Employees and shifts added to a text file.
• loadEmployees and loadShifts methods
  • What it does: to load employees and shifts from the text file to the program.

Justification: This feature is essential in allowing the user to store data locally and load them, saving the trouble to re-enter the data.

Highlights: This feature is coded in an OOP way that makes use of a Parser to parse the data to be stored/loaded. This is very challenging as the FileManager has to be able to handle any sorts of data, and able to store the objects in a text file.

Implemented DataParser class

Contains:

• parseData and parseShift methods
  • What it does: converts the employee and shift objects with their attributes to data that can be written to a text file.

Justification: This feature is essential to store the objects into a save file where all its attributes can be loaded.

Highlights: This feature is coded in an OOP way that allows the FileManager to use its methods to store the converted data. This feature is very challenging as not only does it convert objects into Strings, but also their attributes of various data types such as LocalDate.

Enhancements implemented

Implemented formatData() methods in all entity classes

This method formats all the entities into a string data format that contains all their attributes.

Considerations: Have to take into account the various data types and how can the arraylist of data can be stored.

Loading of Shifts in the AppController on start up

This allows the Shifts objects to be initialised with the Employees that are assigned to them, along with vacancies and shift date.

Considerations: This is pretty tricky as the shift objects have to be initialised along with their respective data using the Shift Date as an identifier.

Implemented Assertions

Created the Asserter class to allow testing of methods.

Formatted all the codes to fit Java coding standards

Made sure the format of all the codes pass the JavaCI tests.

Contributions to documentation

User Guide

For the user guide, I have transferred over what our team has discussed on Google Docs into the User Guide, along with updated commands. I have formatted the guide to make it more readable too.

Contributions to DG

For the developer guide, my main contributions are the sequence diagrams loadEmployees and loadShifts. For the Design and Implementation sections of the DG, I contributed to the Saving of Data and Loading of Data. ___

Contributions to team-based tasks

• Helping with Bug fixes
• Supplying ideas for implementation and solution for Bugs