Ivan Tan Jia An - Project Portfolio

PROJECT: Control Your Crowd

Overview

Control Your Crowd (CYC) is a desktop application used for managing crowd levels at any location or events. The user interacts with it using a Command Line Interface (CLI). It is written in Java using the Object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm and has about 5 kLoc.

Summary of contributions

• New feature: Added the ability to store the list.
  • What it does: Allow the user to not have to retype all the persons into the program again
  • Justification: This feature improves on the product significantly as a user can recover from unexpected crashes without having to input all the data again. This also allows the user to transfer data from a computer to another.
  • Highlights: This enhancement has to be kept up to date with the attributes of other classes.
  • Credits: AB2 address book storage implementation for regex
• New feature: Added the ability to store persistent configurations
  • What it does: The user can set program settings that will be stored
  • Justification: The settings should persist to fit the user preferences.
  • Highlights: Editing the file could lead to severe program malfunction and is hard to recover from.
• Enhancement: Added the command to move storage location
  • What it does: Allow the user to move the storage to a new location
  • Justification: This feature allows the user to easily create multiple new nested folder
  • Highlights: This enhancement does not extend to the config file as the program would not where to read the main storage from
• Code Contributed: RepoSense Link

Contributions to the User Guide

• Wrote the MoveStorage Command
• Helped to come up with a few of the user stories
• Updated the images of the user guide to the latest version v2.1
• Set up the general title of the guide

Contributions to the Developer Guide

• Added the storage section text under implementation
• Added storage uml diagram, and an illustration of the storage file structure.
• Added the setting up section with screenshots to follow the guide easier

Community

• PRs reviewed (with non-trivial review comments): #99, #109, #152, #260
• Some design patterns like the simpleton pattern that I suggested was adopted by other group mates (#91)
• Helped the team with shadow jar support when making the first release (#56)
• Released the first build, v1.0