Benardo Tang - Project Portfolio Page for WatchNext

Overview

About the project

WatchNext is a show tracker designed for users who watch their favourite shows on multiple free streaming platforms and other open source streaming websites. WatchNext records your progress for the different shows you are currently watching, and even for upcoming shows that you plan to watch.
It additionally serves as a tracker to limit your weekly watch time to help you better manage your time.

Summary of contributions

Given below are my coding, documentation, and other helpful contributions to the team project.

• Feature: Added the ability to track daily watch time through the updatetimelimit and watch command.
  • What it does: Allows the user to set a daily time limit to watch shows and maximise productivity. The time limit decreases when the user inputs the watch command and alerts the user when he/she has exceeded or reached the daily limit.
  • Justification: This feature improves the product significantly as the user has an additional benefit of maximising productivity through using the application.
  • Highlights: This enhancement is an addon to our existing product. It required an in-depth analysis of design alternatives. The implementation was challenging as it required additional classes for it to function the way we wanted.

• Feature: Added an extra functionality in SearchCommand, that was initially implemented by teammate Jiqing, to be able to recognise case-insensitive or incomplete inputs as keywords.
  • Justification: This feature improves the product significantly as the user can still find his/her desired show even if the user does not know the full name of the show.
  • Highlights: This enhancement is an addon to our existing search feature. The implementation was challenging as it required additional checks in the search algorithm to make sure the enhancement worked.

• Code contributed: Reposense Link

• Enhancements implemented:
  • Implemented WatchCommand (PR #59, #72)
  • Implemented UpdateTimeLimitCommand (PR #67)
  • Added overall structure for implementation of InputParser (PR #11)
  • Sections of InputParser which some Command functionalities were reliant on (PR #15, #21)
  • Management of output messages to the user through UI class (PR #70)
  • Added functionality in SearchCommand, that was initially implemented by teammate Jiqing, to be able to recognise case-insensitive or incomplete inputs as keywords. (PR #193)
• Contributions to documentation:
  • Added table of contents and overall structure for user guide. (PR #31 , #52)
  • Added documentation in user guide for watch command, updatetimelimit command and Command Summary. (PR #87)
  • General formatting updates and fixes in user guide each time a new feature was added into the guide. (PR #101 , #105)
  • Added documentation to some methods in the InputParser Class. Included documentation to most methods in UI Class (PR #65 , #204)
• Contributions to DG:
  • Added table of contents and overall structure for developer guide. (PR #53)
  • Added WatchCommand, UpdateTimeLimitCommand, various sections in the developer guide. (PR #78 , #120)
  • Added UML diagram for WatchCommand section in developer guide. (PR #151)
  • General formatting of developer guide
• Contributions to team-based tasks :
  • Necessary general code enhancements (PR #194)
  • Setting up the GitHub team org/repo
  • Documenting the User Stories and Manual Testing sections in the developer guide. (PR #123 , #135)
• Review/mentoring contributions:
  • PR reviewed (with non-trivial review comments): (PR #133)