The Support Wheel of Fate is a software which automatically designates members in a team to support the business.
Frontend: https://alissonrs.github.io/wheel-of-fate
Backend: https://wheel-of-fate-api-wheel-of-fate-api.1d35.starter-us-east-1.openshiftapps.com/
To play around, open the frontend URL, use this user and password:
- User: Admin
- Password: #Adm1n
You may notice a dropdown just above the calendar component. Select one team (e.g IT) in order to load the shifts for that team.
In short, the solution was developed with C# .NET Core 2.0 and Angular 6.
At one of our companies, all engineers take it in turns to support the business for half a day at a time. This is affectionately known as BAU. The software should select two engineers at random to both complete a half day of support each.
In short, we have three entities:
- Team
- Engineer
- Shift
An Engineer belongs to one Team and may have many shifts.
In the team, you may configure how many shifts it should have per day, whether it should work on weekends, how many shifts each engineer may take in the same day and how many days an engineer should wait until been eligible for another shift.
This allows the team manager (or the person which is going to manage the team's shifts) to configure how they would like the shifts to be arranged. This makes it flexible, the software is able to figure out the best way to pick engineers for the expected shifts in a well distributed way.
This is a solution just to start the project, but new features could be added, like:
- Allowing an engineer to work in different teams
- Allowing engineers to take vacations
- Changing the distribution to make specific engineers to take more shifts
- Selecting hour start/end for each shift (e.g first shift is from 8 pm to 12pm and second shift is from 2pm to 6pm)
...these are just ideas which could be brainstormed.
The backend was developed using C# .NET Core 2.0, hosted in OpenShift, which is an open source container application platform by Red Hat based on top of Docker containers.
ASP.NET Identity is used to manage the authentication and authorization through Tokens.
Microsoft Azure SQL Database is used to store data, being a managed cloud database provided as part of Microsoft Azure. Entity Framework Core was used as the ORM.
Angular 6 was used to build the frontend application, using Angle Template with Angular 6 Material seed project.
It's hosted in GitHub Pages, a static site hosting service designed to host project pages directly from a GitHub repository.
Fullcalendar is an Open source JavaScript jQuery plugin for a full-sized, drag & drop event calendar, used to show the shifts.
Some Nuget Packages were used to develop the unit tests, like:
- xunit
- Moq
- AutoFixture
AppVeyor is a Continuous Integration solution for Windows and Linux. It's easy to configure with a GitHub repository.
It's possible to find its build history here.
OpenShift builds and deploys new code to its container.
Both solutions use GitHub webhooks as trigger to start their CI/CD pipelines, as soon as new code is pushed in the master branch.