🎬 Streaming Platform Payment Calculator (C++)

👋 Hi there! This is my C++ project, along with the testing procedure.

🎯 Project Overview

The C++ code consists of a short system that calculates the total amount to be paid based on hours watched on a streaming platform.

🔋 Core Functionality

The main menu consists of 3 options:
1️⃣ First, enter the data and information so that the system calculates the amount.
2️⃣ The second, show on a receipt all the required data based on what was entered on menu 1.
3️⃣ The third, close the system.

💰 Logic of calculation for the final price

There are already 2 fixed payments each month, which are:

• fixedFee: 10 USD
  
• contentProtection: 5 USD

The streaming hour has a fixed price of 2 USD per hour. For the additional hourly charge, it works as follows:

• Category 1: The first 10 hours have no additional charges.
  
• Category 2: After 10 to 50 hours consumed, an additional 10% is applied to the final price + the price of the first 10 hours consumed.
  
• Category 3: From 51 to 100 hours, the price of the first 10 hours consumed + 10% of the previous 40 hours, and 20% is applied to the final price based on the hours consumed in this category.
  
• Category 4: Above 100 hours, the price of the first 10 hours consumed(first category) + 10% of the previous 40 hours (second category) + 20% of the third category + 30% applied to the hours above 100 hours.
  

The tax price is 13% of the final total payment price. If the client is exempt from taxes, this additional price is not added.

📁 Structure of the code

For additional information on the code logic, requirements, processes used, and more, I created a document about all the work behind this project: 📋 Code Documentation

📊 Quality Assurance Highlights

🧪 Test Plan

To ensure the functionality and robustness of this system, I applied comprehensive QA strategies:

• Created a Test Plan that outlined the scope, objectives, and testing approach for the system: 📄 Test_Plan

☣️ Testing Techniques:

• Black-Box Testing: Focused on verifying the system's input-output behavior, with Boundary Value Analysis.
• Experience-Based Techniques: Conducted Exploratory Testing to uncover unexpected behaviors and edge cases, providing valuable insights beyond predefined test cases.
• Static Analysis/Testing: Reviewed the code to ensure there was no dead code, unused functions, or variables.

📚 Test Cases

Defined Test Cases to validate both functional and edge-case scenarios.
Test cases named 'Regression' represent the test cases executed after each bug fix iteration was submitted.

• 📄 Test Case Document
  
• 📄 Test Case Regression 1
  
• 📄 Test Case Regression 2
  
  

🐞 Defect Life Cycle:

• Identified issues during test case execution, reported them systematically and fixed the issues: The reporting of the bugs is documented using Notion, here is the link to view the reports: ⛓️ Backlog
  
• Conducted retest and regression testing to confirm fixes and ensure no new issues were introduced.

🔧 Reference for setting up C++ on Windows with VS code:

• Set up C++

🚀 Instructions for running the code locally:

• Install a git client such as git bash.

Clone the repository: 📥

git clone https://github.com/kendallvargas/StreamingQA.git

• Go to the project location and open the 'main' file 📂

• Build and Run ▶️

📹 Example of a normal end-to-end flow in the system:

e2e.mp4