Hospitality Service Scheduler Kata

A while back I was introduced to Uncle Bob’s bowling kata. If you’ve never done it before stop reading and go do it before proceeding here. The bowling kata is an excellent exercise in application design, feature creep and overall good OO skills. In the spirit of the bowling kata, here is a new OO design kata, the “Hospitality Service Scheduler Kata”.

Definitions:

“The hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, restaurants, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line, and additional fields within the tourism industry.” – Wikipedia

Within the hospitality industry there are many employees that are required to make a business run. Each of these employees have one or more defined jobs that they are capable of doing, for example: cook, janitor, manager. Additionally, each employee is capable of working a certain amount of shifts per day and per week per local laws and restrictions. Lastly, most hospitality business schedule employees by the week, 1-2 weeks in advance.

Suggested Requirements:

Write a class named “Scheduler” with the following methods:

• getEmployeeSchedule( employee : Employee, duration : DateSpan )
• getSchedule( duration : DateSpan )

Things to think about:

• managing employees (crud operations, persistence agnostic)
• managing jobs, titles, roles
• ease of use\user stories

Example Use Cases:

Provide a report per employee for a given duration, it might look something like this:

Sally

Monday	9a-3p	Server
Tuesday	10a-2p	Hostess
Wednesday	Off	X

Provide a report for a given duration for all employees, it might look something like this:

Week:3/25/13	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Sally	9a-3p Server	9a-3p Server	9a-3p Server	9a-3p Server	9a-3p Server	x	x
Billy	10a-6p Cook	10a-6p Cook	10a-6p Cook	10a-6p Janitor	10a-6p Host	x	x
Tommy	1p-9p Dishes	10a-6p Dishes	10a-6p Dishes	x	10a-6p Dishes	x	x