CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2022 - E2273.Refactor delayed mailer.rb and scheduled task.rb
Background
Expertiza uses Sidekiq gem for asynchronous processing of email tasks. It has a queue system to hold and then process jobs. Sidekiq’s queue replaces DelayedMailer’s queue. The previous team that worked on this also created a method perform() to gather email IDs of all participants in an assignment and send them an email reminder. Some test cases exist for this work.
History: Previous projects
* E2253 [1] * E2144 [2]
About Assignment Controller
This class is responsible for the creation and implementation of assignment forms. This includes due dates, questionnaires and assigning reviews.
Previous Information can be found here E2144
Files Involved (some changed should not have been changed):
- app/controllers/assignments_controller.rb
- app/mailers/mail_worker.rb
- app/models/assignment_form.rb
- config/sidekiq.yml
- spec/models/assignment_form_spec.rb
- spec/sidekiq_mail_worker_spec.rb
- spec/spec_helper.rb
Problems and planned changes
We are planning to accomplish the following tasks in this project:
Problem 1: Add insightful comments to the methods in mail_worker.rb
* Proposed Solution: Split the whole function into multiple methods performing specific tasks. Change the name of the variables to meaningful names in the method.
Problem 2: Fix Bugs in sidekiq_mail_worker_spec.rb
* Proposed Solution: Comment out or Fix the failing existing tests.
Problem 3: Increase the test coverage for sidekiq_mail_worker_spec.rb
* Proposed Solution: Add more tests to increase test coverage.
Automated Testing using RSPEC
The current version of expertiza included tests for the assignments_form and the mail_worker, but they were far from extensive. Thus we added a few tests of our own.
To run the tests, run the following commands from the expertiza directory
rspec ./spec/workers/sidekiq_mail_worker_spec.rb
Testing from UI
No changes were made to the functionality of the project, however you can access it through the setup below.
- Visit the VCL hosted site: http://152.7.99.69:8080/
- Login: Instructor6
- Password: Password
To Test via UI
1) Login with the login above
2) Click on Manage...
3) Click on Assignments
4) On the right side click the +
5) Once you've added a name, scroll to the bottom and click create
6) Repeat steps 2 and 3, to view the assignment added to the list