Project: VBook

VBook is a sleek, professional contact management app for programmers that value privacy and self hosting. Optimised for freelance software developers, this app combines Command Line Interfaces with professional contact management to give developers the contact book they deserve.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

• New Feature: Added the ability to undo/redo previous commands.

  • What it does: allows the user to undo all previous commands one at a time. Preceding undo commands can be reversed by using the redo command.
  • Justification: This feature improves the product significantly because a user can make mistakes in commands and the app should provide a convenient way to rectify them.
  • Highlights: This enhancement affects existing commands and commands to be added in future. It required an in-depth analysis of design alternatives. The implementation too was challenging as it required changes to existing commands.
  • Credits: {mention here if you reused any code/ideas from elsewhere or if a third-party library is heavily used in the feature so that a reader can make a more accurate judgement of how much effort went into the feature}

• New Feature: Added a history command that allows the user to navigate to previous commands using up/down keys.

• Code contributed: RepoSense link

• Project management:

  • Managed releases v1.3 - v1.5rc (3 releases) on GitHub

• Enhancements to existing features:

  • Updated the GUI color scheme (Pull requests #33, #34)
  • Wrote additional tests for existing features to increase coverage from 88% to 92% (Pull requests #36, #38)

• Documentation:

  • User Guide:
    • Added documentation for the features delete and find #72
    • Did cosmetic tweaks to existing documentation of features clear, quit: #74
  • Developer Guide:
    • Added implementation details of the delete feature.

• Community:

  • PRs reviewed (with non-trivial review comments): #12, #32, #19, #42
  • Contributed to forum discussions (examples: 1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Reported bugs and suggestions for other teams in the class (examples: 1, 2, 3)
  • Some parts of the history feature I added was adopted by several other class mates (1, 2)

• Tools:

  • Integrated a third party library (Natty) to the project (#42)
  • Integrated a new Github plugin (CircleCI) to the team repo

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