parz1val1 / bespokedbikestimhawkins

A Test Exercise Windows Forms app for Profisee.

BespokedBikesTimHawkins

A Test Exercise Windows Forms app for Profisee. I tried a lot of new things for this test and I think I'm all the better for it.

• Never used Entity Famework before but thought I'd give it a shot since Patrick said Profisee uses it, tried a code first approach but I didn't know enough to pull it off, but still used EF as my ORM in the end, just a database first approach
• Never built a UI in winforms either,so that was a new experience too, but thought I'd give it a try since Patrick said the Profisee main monolith was a winforms app.. I don't claim to be a UI/UX master, but it works at the very least!
• I tried to make the code as reusable and well separated as possible, and think I did a pretty good job. I'm not experienced enough in winforms to know if there's a better way to do the UI side of things, but again, it all works!
• Probably worked too hard on this for just an interview coding test, but I actually enjoyed getting to work at a small scale like this and really try to architect it out and learn the new systems as I went.
• Main thing I wish I could have gotten to waa unit tests, I made the test project and everything! just didnt have the time for it sadly.

Prompt

BeSpoked Bikes is looking to create a sales tracking application. BeSpoked is a high-end bicycle shop and each salesperson gets a commission for each bike they sell. They are introducing a new quarterly bonus based on sales as an incentive.

They are asking you to design a simple sales tracking application to help track the commission and determine each salesperson’s quarterly bonus.

They will need at a minimum the following components:

Data layer

• Entities
• Products – Name, Manufacturer, Style, Purchase Price, Sale Price, Qty On Hand, Commission Percentage
• Salesperson – First Name, Last Name, Address, Phone, Start Date, Termination Date, Manager
• Customer – First Name, Last Name, Address, Phone, Start Date
• Sales – Product, Salesperson, Customer, Sales Date
• Discount – Product, Begin Date, End Date, Discount Percentage
• Seed with sample data for testing

Middle tier

• Allows for client access to the data layer

Client

• Display a list of salespersons
• Update a salesperson
• Display a list of products
• Update a product
• Display a list of customers
• Display a list of sales. Optionally filter by date range. This should include the Product, Customer, Date, Price, Salesperson, and Salesperson Commission.
• Create a sale
• Display a quarterly salesperson commission report

Additional Requirements

• Products – No duplicate product can be entered.
• Salespersons – No duplicate salesperson can be entered.