Project: LittleLogBook

LittleLogBook is a desktop address book application adapted from AddressBook-3. The user interacts with it using a CLI, and it has a GUI created with JavaFX. It is written in Java, and has about 15 kLoC.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

• New Feature: Added Birthday field to contacts

  • What it does: allows users to store and view birthday information for each contact in the address book.
  • Justification: This feature enhances the product by enabling users to keep track of important personal dates, making the address book more comprehensive for relationship management.
  • Highlights: This enhancement affected existing commands and storage structure. The implementation required modifying the core Person class, updating JSON storage adaptation, and ensuring data validation for date formats. It also involved updating both the GUI and CLI components to display birthday information consistently.

• New Feature: Implemented View command

  • What it does: allows users to view detailed information of a specific contact in a pop-up window by their index in the displayed list.
  • Justification: This feature improves user experience by providing a focused view of individual contact details without cluttering the main list view, while keeping the main window accessible.
  • Highlights: The implementation required creating a new command parser, ViewWindow class, and ensuring proper index validation against the filtered list. The feature automatically closes the view window when other commands are executed to maintain data consistency.

• New Feature: Implemented Remind command

  • What it does: lists contacts with birthdays occurring within a user-specified number of days from today.
  • Justification: transforms the birthday field from passive data into an active reminder tool, improving user engagement and the application's practical value.
  • Highlights: required implementing complex date comparison logic that handles year-rollovers and leap years, creating a new command and parser, and filtering the model based on a dynamic time window.

• Code contributed: RepoSense link

• Enhancements to existing features:

  • UI Improvements: Updated the GUI to display the new birthday field and enhanced the result display box for better readability and visual appeal.
  • Testing: Wrote additional tests for new features to hit the test coverage.

• Documentation:

  • User Guide:
    • Added documentation for the view command with examples and expected outcomes
    • Did cosmetic tweaks to existing documentation of features add, edit
  • Developer Guide:
    • Added implementation and validation details for birthday field
    • Created detailed sequence diagrams with breakdowns for View and Remind command under implementation
    • Updated design considerations for the enhanced Person class and architecture decisions

• Community:

  • PRs reviewed (with non-trivial review comments): PR #252, #131, #236
  • Team Collaboration: Actively participated in team discussions and planning sessions, helping to resolve integration issues between different features
  • Reported bugs and suggestions: Suggestion issue #181, issue #179

• Tools:

  • Utilised JUnit for writing comprehensive test cases
  • Employed JavaFX for UI enhancements and creating the ViewWindow pop-up
  • Used GitHub Projects for task management and team collaboration

Thank you Note: Big thanks to my incredible team — I’ve learnt so much from every one of you. Even the late nights and endless debugging were fun because we went through it together. Deepa, Theresia, Wei Feng, Yatong

Late nights didn’t feel so late with all of you around ^- Let’s keep creating great things together :>