Contributions

Contributors

Contributors to this repo are as follows:

• Adam — R055A
• Dave — hiin3d55
• Minixing — AlexMiao7
• Kimsong — kimslor
• Andreas - wqsz7xn
• Oscar - oscarli00
• Abhi - AbhiRehal
• Brooke brookeknowles
• Jackson j-chad

*Following list is in the format of: {Name} - {participated github username}

Contributions

General fields of contributions for each contributor is as follows:

Adam

• Backend Lead - This involves:
  • Being responsible for the backend repository
  • Maintaining the project management Kanban board and git workflow
  • Merging all reviewed and approved pull requests to the backend repository
  • Collaboratively code reviewing pull requests:
    • Implement search request for forum post comment
    • Implementing password hashing
    • Fixed bug with heroku deployment
    • Implement forum user deletion
    • Implement random name generation for forum user
    • add feature for Forum post search
    • Add files via upload
    • HTTP POST request for user creation
    • Add DB forum post schema
    • Add DB forum user schema
    • Implement post request for comment creation - I also contributed to this pull request after reviewing it
  • Collaborating in design decisions and technologies being used for the backend
  • Setting up and maintaining the MongoDB Atlas and Heroku accounts
  • Helping other team members with task management, development and code reviews
• Setup Kanban project task management board for the backend and frontend repositories
• Add documentation to the backend and frontend repositories - This involves:
  • CONTRIBUTING.md - Contributing Guidelines
  • CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • CODEOWNERS.md
  • pull_request_template.md
    • Fix pull_request_template.md broken and redundant link
  • README.md - project requirements and instructions for the backend repository
  • A brief description of the project in the About section of the backend repository
• Setup Node.js continuous integration for the backend repository
  • Fix Node.js CI workflow for pull requests
  • Fix CI/CD sequential testing
• Setup Node.js continuous deployment to Heroku for the backend repository
  • Fix Node.js CI/CD workflow for the main backend repository
• Collaboratively setup the server and the MongoDB database
• Implemented connecting to the MongoDB database at application start up with automated testing
• Implemented an HTTP POST request for creating a new forum post with multiple test cases for success and error responses
• Implemented an HTTP DELETE request for removing an existing forum post with multiple test cases for success and error responses
• Collaboratively implemented an HTTP POST request for creating a new forum post comment with multiple test cases for success and error responses
• Implemented an HTTP POST request for logging out an existing forum user with multiple test cases for success and error responses
• Implemented an HTTP POST request for forum user authentication with multiple test cases for success and error responses
• Implemented an HTTP PATCH request for editing forum user data with multiple test cases for success and error responses
• Implemented an HTTP PATCH request for editing forum post data with multiple test cases for success and error responses
• Implemented an HTTP POST request for removing all data from database collections with automated testing
• Refactor test suite setup and teardown for optimal performance time in automated testing of the backend repository
• Fix main repository merge conflict (caused by pull requests passing CI testing and not showing any indication of merge conflict) for the demonstration

Dave

• Implemented HTTP POST request for creating forum post comments
• Added tests for for Create Comment request
• Added the database schema for a forum post comment
• Modified the database schema for forum post so that it contains comments as an attribute
• Reviewed, commented, and approved PRs
• Actively involved in both full-team and backend-team meetings to contribute ideas and also gain ideas
• Contributed towards the demo content - e.g. Proposed future work
• Contributed towards the wiki

Minxing

• Implement request for user search
• Implement search request for forum post
• Implement search request for forum post comment
• Added unit tests for request for user search
• Added unit tests for search request for forum post
• Added unit tests for search request for forum post comment
• Reviewed, commented, and approved PRs
• Involved in both full-team and backend-team meetings to gain ideas
• Contributed towards the wiki

Kimsong

• Aided in the creation of the database using MongoDB Atlas
• Helped other teammates with debugging CI failures
• Assisted in setting up environments so teammates could run tests locally
• Created issues for new features/enhancements and or documentation
• Added unit test for all methods implemented
• Reviewed, commented, and or approved PRs, these include:
  • Fixing main repo for demonstration
  • Refactor test suite setup and teardown
  • Implement logout user functionality
  • Implement user authentication
  • Implement post request for comment creation
  • Add Heroku Continuous Deployment to Action Workflow
  • Fix Pull Request CI Workflow
  • Setup Backend Server
  • Add Node.js Continuous Integration Workflow
  • adding feature of user search
• Added the database schema for a forum post
• Added the database schema for a forum user
• Implemented an HTTP POST request for user creation
• Implemented the functionality for a user to have their display name randomly generated upon user creation
• Implemented an HTTP DELETE request for the deletion of a forum user
• Implemented a password hash function
• Debugged a Heroku deployment issue
• Do the backend demonstration

Andreas

• Converted all tests to modern typescript. Including replacing all callbacks in tests to use async/await.
• Extended the test suite to cover new and changed endpoints
• Reorganized the test suite to use a manageable format
• https://github.com/SE701-T5/Backend/issues/97
• Debugged and fixed endpoints that didn't match the test suite and expected results

Oscar

• Created endpoints to view and update information about the currently logged in user
• Added support for profile pictures
  • Updating existing endpoints
  • Updating existing user schema
  • Serve images from static uploads folder

John

• Fix existing endpoints
• Assist with converting endpoints from callback to promises

Luxman

• Fix existing endpoints
• Assist with converting endpoints from callback to promises

Simon

• Fix existing endpoints
  • Implement the feature of community update endpoint
• Assist with converting endpoints from callback to promises
  • Partially refactor the data validation logic in the communities endpoints
  • Code review of converted promises

Abhi

• Co-programmed on user profile endpoint
• Helped with uploading of images to static folder using Multer

Brooke

• Co-programmed on user profile endpoint
• Helped with uploading of images to static folder using Multer

Jackson

• Setup initial files
• Refactored Node to TypeScript
• Worked on endpoint fix/refactor
• Started initial test refactor

To view the contributions of the frontend team visit the frontend repository Wiki