Hi and welcome to team Gilded Rose.
As you know, we are a small inn with a prime location in a prominent city ran by a friendly innkeeper named Allison. We also buy and sell only the finest goods. Unfortunately, our goods are constantly degrading in quality as they approach their sell by date.
We have a system in place that updates our inventory for us. It was developed by a no-nonsense type named Leeroy, who has moved on to new adventures. Your task is to add the new feature to our system so that we can begin selling a new category of items.
First an introduction to our system:
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All items have a sell-in value which denotes the number of days we have to sell the item
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All items have a quality value which denotes how valuable the item is
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At the end of each day our system lowers both values for every item
Pretty simple, right? Well this is where it gets interesting:
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Once the sell by date has passed, quality degrades twice as fast
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The quality of an item is never negative
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The quality of an item is never more than 50
The following Exceptions exist:
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"Aged Brie" actually increases in quality the older it gets
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"Sulfuras", being a legendary item, never has to be sold or decreases in quality. Its quality is 80 (above the standard max of 50) and it never alters.
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"Backstage passes", like aged brie, increases in quality as it's sell-in value approaches; quality increases by 2 when there are 10 days or less and by 3 when there are 5 days or less but quality drops to 0 after the concert
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"Conjured" items degrade in quality twice as fast as normal items
Feel free to make any changes to the update-quality method and add any new code as long as everything still works correctly. However, do not alter the item function as that belongs to the goblin in the corner who will insta-rage and one-shot you as he doesn't believe in shared code ownership.
N1 Existing code should be tested ✓
N2 Better item wrappers should be prepared to ease update implementation ✓
N3 Code should be refactored to be more readable ✓
N4 "Conjured" item category should be introduced ✓
N5 We should talk to the customer to convince them to migrate from the name-based classification to an explicit classification via dedicated property: the current system is way too fragile (a simple typo will put an item in the wrong category)
N6 quality and sellIn fields should be tagged types to prevent mistakes
BUG1 Sulfuras quality is not always 80 ✓
BUG2 Only one type of "Backstage passes" is supported: verify if this is the intended behavior (same goes for "Sulfuras": see also story N5)
BUG3 Verify that "never has to be sold" means its sell-in date does not decrease