The fictional company Ottivo wants to determine each of its employee's yearly vacation days for a given year.
Requirements: Each employee has a minimum of 26 vacation days regardless of age A special contract can overwrite the amount of minimum vacation days Employees >= 30 years get one additional vacation day every 5 years Contracts can start on the 1st or the 15th of a month Contracts starting in the course of the year get 1/12 of the yearly vacation days for each full month
For your solution, please implement a command line script that takes the year of interest as an input argument and outputs the employees names with the respective number of vacation days.
Please avoid using a database to store the employees and include a README file documenting how to setup and run the command as well as its tests. If you feel that there are ambiguities in the requirements, feel free to make assumptions and also document them.
The task was quite simple to solve, from beginning to the end was between 3 to 4 hours to configure everything, create the tests and program the requirements.
The task could've been done with some structured code or just created a couple functions to solve the problem, but I opted to implement a proper project to turn the solution more understandable and turn easier to create the tests.
In main class, the properties to current employee and also the methods that extract the necessary information could be private to the class, I've opted to make then public to turn the test scripts simple and do not need to use class reflection to then call private methods.
I used the Codeception test lib to create the tests, but it could also be done with PHP Unit. I just choose Codeception because I'm used to it.
The project was created and tested using docker containers and docker-compose commands.
You can find the docker-compose.yml file at the root directory of this project. So, to continue I'm assuming that you
have docker and docker-compose up and running on your machine.
I'm using composer to manage the project dependencies (actually the test suite) and also to manage the main namespace.
To install the dependencies, you can simple run docker-compose run composer and the necessary dependencies will be installed.
To run the tests you can run the service test with the command docker-compose run test.
To run the main application you can run the service ottivo with the command docker-compose run ottivo and a prompt will ask for target year
to then call the code logic for calculation.