Project: Artistic AddressBook

Artistic AddressBook (ArB) is a desktop app for freelance artists, meant to help with efficiently managing client and project information.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • Project management:
    • Team Leader
      • Organised team meetings and kept meeting minutes
      • Reminded fellow team members of deadlines and kept them on task
      • Made decisions regarding what features to implement and what direction to go in
    • Reviewed PRs for team members, providing suggestions and possible solutions
  • Contributions to team-based tasks:
    • Set up GitHub team organisation and repository
    • Performed the initial refactor of package names and class names to suit our product
    • Responsible for release management
    • Incorporated the PrettyTime library into our project to perform natural language processing for deadlines
  • Code contributed: RepoSense link
    • Contributed majority of the test code and maintained code coverage at 75% and above
  • Enhancements implemented:
    • Ability to sort the client/project list
      • Had to learn how to use JavaFX’s sorted list so that I could utilise it to sort entities by a predicate that can be supplied by the model
    • A list of tags that shows how many clients and projects a tag has been used with
      • This involved creating a UniqueTagMappingList class that had to be updated on every change of the model so that the information is always accurate
    • Ability to link a client to a project
      • Implementing the backend link between a client and a project was complicated as there were many ways to do it and I wanted to find a way that reduced complexity and coupling. It was also difficult since the client and project list had to be kept updated whenever a linked client or project is edited so as to keep the UI up-to-date
    • Enhanced the existing find feature
      • Allowed more parameters to be used in the find feature, such as tags and linked clients (for projects)
    • Aliases for command words and prefixes
    • Natural language processing for deadlines
  • Documentation: