🐛 TaskForge: Agile Project Manager

TaskForge is an intuitive Agile Project Manager built using ASP.NET Core, following the MVC design pattern and utilizing MS SQL Server as the primary database. It serves as a lightweight solution to effectively track and manage tasks and projects within a growing software development environment.

Key Features

• Task and Project Management: Create, read, update, and delete tasks and projects effortlessly within an organized to-do list structure.
• User Authentication: Secure user login and registration system for maintaining privacy and confidentiality.
• Flexible Task Status: Monitor task progress with distinct status labels, including Open, Closed, and Completed.
• Email Notifications: Receive email notifications upon task completion for enhanced communication and accountability.

How to Use

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following software installed:

• .NET 6 SDK

Getting Started

1. Create an account or sign in if you already have one using the top right corner of the navbar.
2. Create your first project:
   • Navigate to the project tab and click on "Add Project".
   • Fill out the required forms and click "Create".
3. Access the Tasks tab to view all projects as cards. Click on "See Tasks" to create a new task for each project.
4. Fill out all required fields in the task creation form, and click "Create".

Additional Functionality

• Delete projects by clicking the trash can icon in the projects tab or the delete button in the tasks tab.
• View detailed information about each task by clicking the info button at the end of each row in the task tab.

Dependencies

• .NET 6 SDK

Building and Running

Local Environment

1. Navigate to the project directory.
2. Execute the following commands in the terminal:

dotnet restore
dotnet build
dotnet run

Creating the Database

This will need to be perfored before running the application for the first time

1. Change to the Persistence directory (i.e. bugTracker.Core/bugTracker.Core.Persistence)

   cd bugTracker.Core.Persistence

2. Issue the Entity Framework command to update the database

   dotnet ef database update

   This will ensure that all migrations are used to create or alter the local database instance

Requirements

#	Requirement	Implementation details	Implemented?
1	Dependency injection	Used the built-in ASP.NET Core dependency container.	✔️
2	Working with the database (CRUD, Repository pattern)	Used the MySQL relational DBMS. CRUD operations on database objects are implemented. Repository pattern was also implemented.	✔️
3	Data mapping	Entity Framework Core was used as an ORM.	✔️
4	Data validation	Annotations from System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations were used to validate the model. Own custom validation attributes were also used.	✔️
5	Logging	Used the logger ILogger<T> from Microsoft.Extensions.Logging. Filters were also used for logging SQL queries.	✔️
6	Testing	Unit tests for BugTracker are implemented using the xUnit testing framework. The isolation framework Moq was also used.	✔️
7	Integration with any HTTP service	Implemented integration with the public job service over HTTP via HttpClient from System.Net.Http. Retry policy was also implemented via Polly.	✔️
8	Authentication	Authentication is implemented using Identity and custom Razor pages.	✔️
9	Message queues	A message queue using the RabbitMQ (AMQP protocol) was used to communicate with the microservice.	✔️
10	Microservices	A mail (SMTP) microservice was implemented that notifies the user about assigment to the issue.	✔️