COSC2299

In this course, I gained the knowledge and technical skills in working with CakePHP framework (extended and deepened my understandings in CakePHP after the first exploration in COSC2625 Building IT System). I became more familiar with the framework and understood better about the integration machenisms of its components. By attending the lectures, I opened the gate to software development in a more structural and systematic manner. I found a way to combine the development framework with a development process under the instructions of the tutor in assignment work. I got the ideas of how to properly do Continuous Development & Deployment using Version Control software with Test-Driven Development in a simulated real-life project. The only thing that I had missed in this course was about using a development management tool (Jira, Trello), but the progress of our work had been fine because the project was divided into 3 assignments and I was only required to follow the instructions of tutor (who was also the Product Owner).

The assignment was about designing and implementing a Booking System with the following requirements:

• Tested features, test plan, test cases and test scripts must be defined and provided for proof-read (by tutor) before any implementation if students wish to apply TDD development. So do the wireframes of UI designs. Students can either use text file or database for data persistency of the system.
• The development must be version-controlled. The system needs to be deployed at the submission time of each assignment. Students should send a `pull request` with a verion tag to Product Owner to get a checkpoint for later implementation phase.
• Users of the system include guests, customers, business owner and admin.
• Customers need to login to access the system functionalities. The system should allow them to register an account if they haven't had one. All users must be authorised to access some certain sections of the website.
• Business Owners can add new employees to their businesses, then can add working date and time for each employee basing on their available time, then can view a summary of bookings (new and past), then can view the available time of the employees.
• Business OWners can add new services to a business, and some employees can only do some certain services.
• Customers can view available booking date and time, then make a booking by choosing a booking slot and a prefered employee subject to service and employee availability. A service duration can be variable or fixed depending on students' asumption.
• Business Owner can also create a booking for a customer.
• Business Owner can add working hours for their businesses. The business services can also be added via uploading a file. Business Owner can customize the display of their business page (by either implementing a CMS or manually programming).
• Refactor the project to apply a Design Pattern (exclude Singleton and Iterator patterns).

On completion of this course, I am confident in using CakePHP, Javascript, JQuery, HTML, Git (both via command-line and source-tree), Selenium (with OO-Python, using faker, cucumber and lettuce). I was known about AWS Web Hosting and deployment via Version Control system, and implement some design pattern into a project (or refactoring).