Project: PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft is a Payroll management app for companies handling contractor-based services.

Summary of Contributions

  • Role in team: Developer, Documentation, Testing

  • New Feature: Added the export feature for payslips.
    • What it does: Gives the user ability to view exact earnings and job assignments.
    • Justification: Helps contractors keep track of their earnings transparently.
  • New Feature: Created the job list interface and a skeletal implementation
    • What it does: Core functionality of the product.
    • Justification: Helps contractors keep track of their earnings transparently.

  • Code contributed: RepoSense link

  • Enhancements to existing features:
    • Find Functionality
      • Originally no wildcard support
      • After development, finds all people by a certain name and/or tag. If multiple keywords are queried, only entries that match all tags are returned.
      • The motivation behind this logic is that users want to increasingly narrow down the number of persons they see in the outlay.
      • Feature was later extended to similar behaviour on jobs as well.
  • Documentation:
    • User Guide:
      • Set up the original draft adapting from the meeting notes.
      • Detailed relevant features, specifically elaborated on find, list, and export functionalities.
  • Testing
    • Wrote the testing suite for Payments.
    • Wrote tests for personfind and joblist.
  • Community: