Project: uMessage

Overview

uMessage is an app that helps university students manage their contacts and meetings. It is optimized for keyboard users.

Summary of Contributions

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • Code Contributed: RepoSense link

  • New Feature: Global Tag List display #113

    • What it does: Displays a list of all tags available in the Main Window.

    • Justification: This feature allows users to view the list of available tags so that they can filter the contact list based on specific tags.

    • Highlights: This enhancement requires understanding of the observer pattern used in the GUI framework and FXML.

  • New Feature: Addition and deletion of Tag directly #113

    • What it does: Supports the addition and deletion of specific Tag

    • Justification: This feature allows users to add and delete tags directly without involving Person.

    • Highlights: Deletion of tags is such that every Person with the deleted Tag will have the Tag removed.

  • New Feature: Implement ViewCommand #79

    • What it does: Displays user contact details in the RHS Window.

    • Justification: This feature allows users to view all details of a specific contact in the RHS Window.

    • Highlights: This enhancement requires understanding of the observer pattern used in the GUI framework and FXML.

  • New Feature: Implement HelpWindow #83

    • What it does: Displays HelpWindow when user inputs help.

    • Justification: Instead of providing a link to the User Guide website, we integrated help with the GUI so that users can refer to the help guide without the need of accessing the Internet.

    • Highlights: Markdown view was supported for HelpWindow which required the importing of external libraries.

    • Credits: Github user JPro for the markdown library.

    • Credits: Github user JPro for the markdown library.

  • Enhanced Feature: Addition and deletion of SocialMedia directly #109

    • What it does: Supports the addition and deletion of specific SocialMedia from Person.

    • Justification: This feature allows users to add and delete SocialMedia directly from Person.

  • Enhanced Feature: Make Email and Phone optional (PR #110)

    • Email and Phone are now optional fields that do not have to be added when initialising a new contact.

    • By default, the value of Email and Phone is now - if it is empty.

  • Enhanced Feature: Addition and deletion of SocialMedia directly #109

    • Supports the addition and deletion of specific SocialMedia from Person directly.

  • Documentation:

    • User Guide:

      • Update the User Guide with help and view command: #90

    • Developer Guide:

      • Add User Stories: #14

      • Add Glossary: #16

    • Help Guide:

      • Initialize Help Guide in the HelpWindow: #83

  • Project Management

    • As the team lead, I am in charge of the overall project management, from scheduling meetings to setting clear deadlines for each deliverable.

    • Initialise 11 issues about bugs/improvements.

    • Fix miscellaneous bugs. #176, #165, #201, #187, #188 and etc.

    • Create test cases for add, delete and edit. #222

  • Review/mentoring contributions:

    • Review 27 pull requests and provide suggestions to teammates about code.

  • Community

    • Reported 9 bugs and suggestions for other teams in the class (examples: 1, 2)