Project: ParentPal

ParentPal is a desktop app for managing your children’s contacts and their related appointments. The user interacts with it using a CLI, and it has a GUI created with JavaFX. It is written in Java, and has about 10 kLoC.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • New Feature: Added the ability to sort contacts.
    • What it does: allows the user to sort the contact list in alphabetical or chronological order.
    • Justification: This feature helps users keep their contact list organised in whichever way they want, and is a foundational function that users expect to have when they store a lot of information.
    • Highlights:
  • New Feature: Added the ability to favourite contacts and list favourited contacts.
    • What it does: allows the user to favourite or unfavourite contacts in the contact list.
    • Justification: This feature makes the process of finding frequently contacted people much easier.
    • Highlights: This enhancement affected many other commands, as favourite was a new attribute under a contact. In addition, the list command can now accept arguments in terms of options of what to list. It required analysis of design alternatives as there were multiple ways to implement it.
  • New Feature: Added the ability to delete appointments.
    • What it does: allows the user to delete appointments by index.
    • Justification: This feature is a core functionality.

  • Code contributed: RepoSense link

  • Project management:
    • Managed releases v1.2 - v1.4 (4 releases) on GitHub
  • Enhancements to existing features:
    • Prevent deleting of contacts that are involved in appointments (Pull requests #149)
    • Allow appointments of same name to be added, given that they have a different date/time or address (Pull requests #257)
    • Allow users to edit contacts to remove their previous entries to optional fields such as the phone, email and address (Pull requests #263)
    • Wrote tests for features (FavouriteCommand, FavouriteCommandParser, SortCommand, SortCommandParser, ListCommand, ListCommandParser, DeleteAppointmentCommand, DeleteAppointmentCommandParser, ListAppointmentCommand) to increase coverage (Pull requests #284, #288)
  • Documentation:
    • User Guide:
      • Added documentation for the features sort and favourite (Pull requests #89, #107)
      • Did cosmetic tweaks to existing documentation of features list, delete: (Pull requests #107, #172)
    • Developer Guide:
      • Updated target user, value proposition and user stories. (Pull request #22)
      • Added use cases. (Pull request #22)
      • Added implementation details of the sort feature. (Pull request #97)
      • Added implementation details of the favourite feature. (Pull request #283)
      • Added test cases for edit, delete, list, sort and favourite feature in Appendix. (Pull requests #306, #318)
  • Community:
    • PRs reviewed (with non-trivial review comments): #139, #141, #147