User Stories

Users

Sign up

• As an unregistered/unauthorized user I want to be able to sign up for the website through a signup form.
• When I'm on the /signup page

• I would like to enter username, email, preferred password, and confirm whether I am a professional or regular user

• I would like to have a checkbox to confirm that I am a professional user.

• I would like website to log me in upon successful completion of the sign-up form

• So that I can seamlessly access the site's functionality

• When I enter invalid data on the sign-up form:

• I would like the website to inform me of the validations I failed to pass, and repopulate the form with my valid entries (except my password).
• So that I can try again without needing to refill forms I entered valid data into.

• When my password field does not match confirm password field

• I would like the website to inform me that the passwords do not match and force me to refill both password and confirm password

Login

• As a registered and unauthorized user I want to be able to log in to the website via a log-in form.
• When I am on the /login page:

• If I am not registered I would like to see a button that redirects me to the /signup page
• I would like to be able to enter my email and password on a clearly laid out form
• I would like the website to log me in upon successful completion of the login form

• So that I can seamlessly access the site's functionality

• When I am logged in as a regular user, I would like to be directed to my profile page that has a list of my questions that I can either edit or delete as well as the given answers to my questions
• When I am logged in as a professional user, I would like to be directed to my profile page that has a list of my questions that I can either edit or delete, my answers that I can either edit or delete and the given answers to questions that I have asked
• When I try to enter the wrong password

• Then the top of the form will show a message "Invalid Login information. Please try again."

• When I try to log in with an email that is not registered

• Then the top of the form will show a message "Invalid Login information. Please try again."

Demo User

• As an unregistered and unauthorized user I would like an easy to find and clear button on both the /signup and /login pages to allow me to visit the site as a guest without signing up or logging in.
• When I'm on either the /signup or /login pages:

• I can click on a Demo user button to log me in and allow me access as a normal user.

• So that I can test the site's features and functionality without needing to stop and enter credentials

Log Out

• As a logged in user, I want to be able to log out via an easy to find log out button on the navigation bar.

• While on any page of the site:

• I can log out of my account and be redirected to a page displaying recently asked questions

• So that I can easily log out to keep my information secure.

Ask questions

• As an unauthorized user I cannot ask questions.

• I can view a sampling of the most recent questions
• When I try to ask questions I will be directed to the /login page

• As an authorized user, I would like to be able to ask questions

• With an "Ask Question" button that will redirect me to a /questions-ask page with a form that includes a title field, body text area, tags field, and a submit button.
• When I click the submit, I receive an alert asking if I'm sure I want to submit in the form of a yes or no question
• When I submit the question, my name would appear next to the question

• So that users will know who asked the question

• As an authorized user, I would like to be able to edit my questions:

• When I click the edit button, I will be redirected to the question form with my question already populated

• As an authorized professional user, I would like to be able to delete my questions:

• When I click the delete button, it will remove my question from the database

Answer Questions

• As an authorized professional user, I have the permission to answer any questions

• I would like to answer questions in the "Your Answer" text area with a "Post Your Answer" button
• When I click the "Post Your Answer" button, I would like my answer to appear

• As an authorized professional user, I can delete my answers

• When I click the "Delete" button, I will be able to remove my answer from the database

• As an authorized user, professional or regular, I would like to comment on answers to questions:

• I would like a comment field with a "Write your comment here" placeholder inside it with a "Submit Comment" button inside the answers box
• When I click the "Submit Comment" button, I would like my comment to appear
• If I have an empty message after submitting my comment, I would like a pop-up or an error to indicate that I need to fill out the comment
• I would like to add as many comments as I want

• As an unauthorized User, I am unable to answer questions and make comments to the answers

• If I click on the "Submit Button" , I will be directed to the log in page

• As an authorized regular user, I won't be able to answer questions

• If I click on the "Answer" button, an alert will pop up

Upvote/Downvote

• As an authorized professional user, I can upvote or downvote any question or answer.

• When I click an upvote button I will see the vote total change by +1
• When I click the downvote button I will see the vote total change by -1
• Whichever button I click will be visually indicated.

• As an unauthorized user, I can't upvote or downvote questions or answers.

• When I try to click the up or downvote button it will redirect me to the log-in page.

Search for Questions

• As any user, I can search for questions in the search bar

• When I search for a question using a word or words that match any word or words in a question:

• I will see a result of questions that contains the searched words or word in the order of most recently posted

• When I search for a question using words that are not contained in any of the questions in the database:

• I will see a result that informs me that a question could not be found and a button that prompts me to ask my question

Bonus

• As the user that asked a question, I want to be able to select an answer that helped me best

• When I select an answer it will appear as the first answer for the question and be highlighted

• As any authorized professional user I can upvote downvote the other professional users
• As a professional user I can add gild to a answer to add flair which gives it priority in the list of answers

• When I try to gild an answer I will be redirected to a page that lets you purchase gilds.

• As a professional user I can earn gild with upvotes

• 1000 upvotes will be worth 1 free guild