Project: HR Insight

HR Insight is a desktop app for HR people, optimized for use via a Command Line Interface (CLI) while still having the benefits of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The user interacts with it using a CLI, and it has a GUI created with JavaFX. It is written in Java, and has about 10 kLoC.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • New Feature: Added the ability to manage claims of employees.

    • What it does: Allows users to keep track of remaining claim budget for each employee. Dynamic allocation/subtraction of claims for each employee, allowing latest claim budget to be displayed.
    • Justification: This feature reduces the effort required for administrative claim processing, since excessive claims will be rejected automatically by the system and mathematical errors are avoided completely.
    • Highlights: This feature is challenging since parsing checks are required to determine if user wants to allocate/subtract those funds and thereafter, having to produce different success commands.
    • PR #63

  • New Feature: Added the ability to view specific attribute for employee(s).

    • What it does: Allows users to view specific attribute for employee(s). Provides faster access to attributes for employee(s) instead of manual scraping the entire list for just one attribute. (PR)
    • Justification: This feature is beneficial if user just wants to view one attribute for a large number of employees. Reduces time required for manual scraping of just that attribute for the whole list.
    • Highlights: This feature is challenging as I incorporated multiple index parsing and the effort to ensure every index is captured and checked for validity is time-consuming.
    • PR #70

  • New Feature: Added the ability to export Employees’ attributes into a CSV file.

    • What it does: Allows users to export all employees’ attributes into a CSV file. Additionally, users are able to export a subset of employees by filtering on criteria like department.
    • Justification: This feature is beneficial as having a CSV file comprising of employees’ attributes allow users to incorporate this data into third-party vendors. Allows our application to be used in harmony with others.
    • Highlights: Learnt Java and its specific utility classes like PrintWriter and streams to make this feature functional.
    • PR #88

  • New Feature: Added the ability to reset all employees’ leaves.

    • What it does: Allows users to reset existing leaves for all employees.
    • Justification: This feature is beneficial whenever a new calendar year strikes, since employees leaves are resetted to zero. We do not want previous year leaves to affect existing year leaves.
    • PR #117

  • Code contributed: RepoSense link

  • Project management:

    • Managed releases v1.2 - v1.3rc (3 releases) on GitHub
    • Conducted weekly meetings and jotted down meeting minutes on the project page.

  • Documentation:

    • User Guide:
      • Added documentation for the features claim, view_attribute, export and reset_leaves.
      • Added UI images (Before & After) for each feature. (PR #119)
    • Developer Guide:
      • Added implementation details for claim, view_attribute, export and reset_leaves.
      • Added UML diagrams for export.

  • Community: