1.    Project Overview

1.1    System Description

The client for this project has decided to build a platform that will support the sale, exchange, and redemption of gift cards between businesses and individuals.  The goal of this platform is to help small businesses expand, using both web and mobile layouts, by giving them a simple way to raise capital and acquire new customers using gift cards.

The client needs to create a high quality platform that is easy-to-use even for business owners that don’t have a lot of technical expertise.  Many business owners are not technologically sophisticated, so creating a platform that is simple to understand and navigate is also a top priority.

The main function of the platform will be to allow business to post virtual gift cards for sale on the platform.  Individual users will be able to browse and buy these gift cards, as well as resell or trade gift cards they own.  Using the mobile layout, users will be able to redeem their gift cards at the business, and the business will be able to process gift card redemption at their point of sale.

This assembly is responsible for implementing miscellaneous tweaks and improvements as well as fixing bugs.

 

1.2    Competition Task Overview

 

1.2.1    Scope

1.2.1.1. The spreadsheet below - 3 tasks. 

Number	Short Name	Desktop/mobile	Name of Page	Task overview
77	Anonymous feedback	Both	Home	If anonymous user is trying to send feedback she must be redirected to login page and after successful login redirected to the Feedback page.
85	"Enter" key press	Desktop	/Login; /Home pages	When entering login/pwd or search keyword user must be able to proceed pressing "Enter" on her keyboard
87	Navigation after abuse is reported	Desktop	Abuse report	After abuse is reported it makes sense to redirect user back to home page

 

 

1.2.1.2. Jira issues in PMP project. The full requirements description is attached. I

In case you need to access Jira tickets, please claim the access at the forum and then use "project = "Project Mom and Pop" AND component=MiscUpdates4August" request.

 

1.2.1.3. Logging update

Currently timestamp is not logged at all and it is confusing. 

Your task is to make the app log timestamp of opertations. All 3 application (API, frontend, mobile) and worker.js must be covered.

 

TO BE NOTICED:

- Deployment guide consolidation. If anything deployment/configuration related in needed to be added to the existing to the deployment guide, please do it in Edit mode (MS Word). The verification steps for this assembly must be provided in a separate file to avoid any confusion.

- The working app is available at https://www.foundershare.com/ (Production) and http://www.qa.foundershare.com/ (QA).

- The current codebase is posted at the forum.

 

1.2.2. API and DB update

When/if you create new API and/or update DB schema please ensure that

- API is secure and checks ID of the requesting client: no user (Individual or Business) shall have access to another user data via API unless they are authorized. E.g. Business Owner shall not be able to view gift cards of another business calling API with  another business ID parameter.

- new API it is covered with unit tests.

- updates to the DB schema are documented in a dedicated file and please provide a mechanism that will fill new fields of the existing records with empty valid value. E.g. of being NULL, a numeric field shall be 0, string field - be "n/a", ZIP code - 00000 etc.

 

1.3    Approval phase

- Since the codebase may be updated in parallel, the winner may be asked to merge the codebase (mostly integrating the code of this assembly into the main branch).

- Some minor UX/UI fixes may be requested by the client during approval phase.

Final Submission Guidelines

Working Codebase (please do not submit diffs or patches)

- Updated deployment guide

A complete list of deliverables can be found in the TopCoder Assembly competition Tutorial at:

http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/tc/Assembly+Competition+Tutorials