Unable to add books to different shelves (not explained how)

[RyanLing169]

Instructions to add books give no option to choose which shelf to store the book.

result is that the functionality of the shelves (presumably for organisation) is unusable as all books just get added to shelf 0

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Team's Response

Our application is designed to automatically assign books to shelves based on their genre, not through manual user selection. This design decision streamlines the process of a librarian adding a book. This automated shelf assignment mechanism is already demonstrated in the output and aligns with our intended implementation. Additionally, there was no feature promised in the UG allowing manual shelf selection during the add command.

As such, since the functionality of our program is not affected in the slightest, this behavior is expected and not a bug. We are therefore rejecting this issue.

Items for the Tester to Verify

❓ Issue response

Team chose [response.Rejected]

• I disagree

Reason for disagreement: In the UG as well as in using the appplication itself, there was no further explanation on what exactly the second index in the book's ID was for. Even after adding countless books to all genres, books seemed to be added to shelf 0, with no usage of any of the other 4 shelves per genre. Hence, even if it was not intended for users to manually choose which shelf to place the books on, this second index in the book ID seems irrelevant/unexplained and if left to the user's to explore, it seems like a featuret that is missing/does not work.

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❓ Issue severity

Team chose [severity.VeryLow]
Originally [severity.High]

• I disagree

Reason for disagreement: I feel that even if not taken as a functionality bug, this bug still has at least medium severity as users can still use the product as designed but if the users wanted to organise books within a genre, they would recall the portion in the UG that mentioned 5 shelves per genre and decide to try and use that functionality. However, they would find that it is unexplained exactly how the five shelfs work and how to access them and hence just go back to using the same shelf for all.

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