User:Jitesh
CSC/ECE 517 Spring 2016 - Expertiza E1613
This wiki page is for the description of changes made according to the specification of E1613 OSS assignment for Spring 2016.
Peer Review Information
For testing the changes made, the following credentials are recommended:
- Instructor Login: username: instructor6 password: password
- Student Login: username: student11 password: password
- Student Login: username: student1862 password: password
The above users are suggested for testing because there are a few users which would lead to exceptions upon login for unknown reasons completely unrelated to our work.
Introduction
Background
Expertiza is a web portal which can be used to manage assignments related to a course. It provides a platform to view assignments, manage teams, select topics and work improvement through anonymous peer reviews. For the instructor it provides complete control to create assignments, view reviews submitted and provide feedback. The instructors also have an option to publish the students work based on the rights provided by the student.
Problem Statement
The following were the tasks identified to accomplish through this project. These tasks are part of the sign_up_sheet_controller.rb and sign_up_topic.rb
- Method ad_info in the sign_up_sheet_controller.rb users sql query to retrieve the desired objects. This needs to be changed so that action records are used instead and a hash/array of the required object is returned.
- Delete the method add_default_microtask after confirming that there is no reference to the method.
- The view_publishing_rights method brings up a webpage to the instructor on whether the course staff has been granted or denied the right to use each submission in the future. The current implementation of the project works only for assignments that have topics assigned to them. This needs to be enhanced to include assignments that do not have associated topics as well. Another change that needs to be brought about is that the view_publishing_rights needs to be refactored and moved to the participants controller.
- The methods slotAvailable? implemented in the sign_up_sheet_controller.rb needs to be removed from the controller. The methods should only exist in the corresponding model.
- Method other_confirmed_topic_for_user is only referenced by the method waitlist_teams. The method wait_list_teams is not referenced anywhere. These methods need to be removed if it is confirmed that they are not used anywhere else.
- Expertiza provides a functionality to import topics from a file(.csv or .txt). This feature is currently not tested. Test the functionality of this feature and fix it if broken. Another change that needs to be brought about is that the current implementation requires that each row of the imported file needs to have four columns. However the fourth column which represents "category" is not mandatory and it should be possible to import a document which does not include values for this column.
- Add Rspec testcases to test the changes implemented above.