COM431 QAHE Server Side Development Supplementary Assignment Coursework  2024/25

COM431 Assignment

This assignment is the construction of the key elements of a PHP Model-View-Controller Laravel Herd Application to retain Population data for specific Countries within a continent.

It is recommended that you make use of the Week 10 CRUD Lab Exercise in developing your solution and the Week 3 Git Lab Exercise when using Azure Git*. 

Set up a fresh Laravel Project with PHPUnit.  Once created, connect this project to a private Azure Git repo* and create your first initial commit called “Initial Setup”.  You are required to create at least one more commit when you are finished and about to submit your assignment to Blackboard.  This should be called “Final Version”.  You can create more intermediate commits, as would be good version control practices.

Configure your project to use BootStrap 5 in the similar way to the Week 10 Lab to view the list of Countries with their Population and typical Actions with 5 rows per page and incorporate appropriate validation rules.

Once you have the environment configured, you are to import the Population information for the Countries within the allocated continent and complete the set of CRUD actions.

The index method should initially show the countries in the order from the continent data file you were given.

The report should include your screenshots (it is recommended you use the Snip Tool for Windows to capture the screenshots and add them to a Word docx) for the following actions in sequence:

1. Show all the pages in turn of the table data and add each page screenshot to the report
2. Change the code for the index method to sort the information by the Population from largest to smallest and alphabetically by A to Z and then complete the remaining steps:
   Create/add the new Country: Anguilla, with the Population: 14728
   Then update the third listed country’s population and round up to the nearest 1 Million – TIP: you can use the Number Helper in the blade view to format the Population using Illuminate\Support\Number::forHumans() that converts exact information such as: 3,115,889 to an approximate of: 3 million
   a.Show the first page of the table and add the screenshot to the report
   Now delete the Country: United States
   b.Show all the pages of the table data and add each page screenshot to the report
   Create an automated test to check that the new Country Anguilla added is now found
3. Screenshot the output of the test and add to the report

The report only needs to include the screenshots. Separately, add the link to your Azure Git repo* to Blackboard.  Here are the email addresses you should add to make the repo available to: Tendai Mhlanga: Tendai.Mhlanga@qa.com

If you cannot share your repo link then please upload a zipfile of your project, but you must remove the vendor folder before zipping the project and uploading the project.

Upload to Blackboard the report and the repo link/zipfile.

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