July 5 Presentation Notes

• Requirements
  • MVP
    • Users can log in
    • Users can submit requests
    • Users can see past and current reimbursements
    • Users can update requests to include grades/presentations
    • Finance Managers can view all requests
    • Finance Managers can approve or reject requests
    • Finance Managers can update the status of a request after user updates
  • Other Required (GitHub)
    • Logging
    • Cucumber/JUnit Tests
    • 3NF format
      • No field depends on another field in such a way that field A 100% predicts the contents of Field B (ex: all cats are mammals, all books written by Mark Twain were written by an American)
    • As RESTful as possible
      • All endpoints aside from /login and /logout use RESTful formatting
    • Input Validation
    • Styled web pages using CSS
      • Bare technicality--see List Page
    • Public Repository
  • Other Required (ERS Word Doc)
    • Max $1000 reimbursement per year
    • Preset categories of redeemable event types and covered percentages
    • Mark urgent if less than 2 weeks remain
    • Finance Manager can alter Request Amount
    • Finance Manager has room to comment on changes
    • User can withdraw their request if Request Amount is changed
    • Only interested parties (finance managers and relevant users) can see requests/grades
      • Partial: Only finance managers and relevant users can see the request on List Page, but anyone can see any request on Single Page
  • Stretch
    • Ability to upload attachments
    • Finance Manager can request additional information
    • Auto-approval after a certain amount of time
    • Available Reimbursement resets on the new year
• Home Page
  • Login
    • Takes user to Login page
  • Logout
    • Sets sessionStorage values relating to user account to null
  • User Profile
  • List Page
  • Debug Button
    • Console.log(uID) + Console.log(isManager)
• Login Page
  • Demonstrate Login
  • Demonstrate Failed Login
  • Visibility Toggle
• User Page
  • Nothing much to comment on here
• List Page
  • Make note of the CSS styling present (what little there is)
  • Get By Single ID
  • View Your Requests
  • View Requests You Manage
  • View All Requests
• Single Page
  • Load Request Form
    • Big old pile of innerHTML concatenation
    • Talk about difficulty of loading/reading Date-type inputs
    • Also setting starting values of dropdown boxes caused issues unless the actual value was numerical
  • Clear Saved Request
    • Like Logout, but for Requests
  • Data Validation
    • Numbers in drop-down boxes allow easy indexing of the event type/percentage covered array back in Java
    • Dates are already so annoying without them being mistyped
• Logging Strategy Going Forwards
  • Log time, uID, and rID at beginning and end of each function in the Controller classes
  • Log errors as well
• Tests that Could’ve Been
  • Show requests 8-12 for example tests
• Questions