Milestone 2: Personal Contribution Page (Ali Nasra)

Personal Info:

• Name: Ali Nasra
• Group: B2

Issue and wiki links:

Contribution	Related Issue(s) & Wiki Page(s)
Scrutinized Poll API's documentation for API implementation	#72
Prepared a Swagger tutorial	#96, Tutorial Page

Third Party URIs:

Poll API was used for the purpose of initializing the polls.

• Name: Create poll
• Route: https://api.pollsapi.com/v1/create/poll
• Description: Creates a poll given a question and at most 4 multiple options.
• Name: Get all polls
• Route: https://api.pollsapi.com/v1/get/polls?offset={offset}&limit={limit}
• Description: Allows the user to view their poll feed with a limit of almost 150.

API functions:

createPoll:

• Name: createPoll
• Route: localhost:8000/api/polls_createPoll/
• Description: Enables the user to create a new poll instance on Poll API.

viewPoll:

• Name: viewPoll
• Route: localhost:8000/api/polls_viewPoll/
• Description: Enables the user to view all the polls that were initialized until this moment.

Unit tests:

• Test 1:
  We check for the correct creation of polls upon each respective creation call. To verify the result, we compute the number of created polls by that time. We have created 2 poll objects, hence the result must be 2.
  
• Test 2:
  We check if we can fetch certain polls with a specific parameter. Here, our question is about the elections. In that case, we use the question attribute of the poll to check for the correctness of the response.
  
• Test 3:
  We demonstrate that we can create a new poll with different attributes. We verify the result by computing the number of created polls by that time. We have created 2 poll objects earlier and one now, hence the result must be 3.
  

Sample calls:

createPoll:

• headers: {'content-type': 'application/json'}
• status code: 200
• JSON: {'question':'How are you doing?', 'firstOption':'Fine', 'secondOption':'Good', 'thirdOption':'Bad', 'fourthOption':'Ambivalent'}

viewPoll:

• headers: No header is passed while making the call.
• status code: 200
• JSON: No JSON is passed while making the call.

Significant Work related to this release:

• My most significant side contribution is investigating Swagger, preparing a didactic tutorial for the other team members, and incorporating relevant code into the API.

Challenges encountered:

• Lack of familiarity with Backend and frontend development.
• Tackling Django and the sheer amount of embedded functionalities to be assessed.
• Finding a proper and easy API that satisfies the project's requirements and serves as a gentle introduction to backend development.
• Difficulty in writing comprehensive test cases for the code using conventional methods.