Silk Home Assignment

Setup

This application uses python-poetry for packaging, and dependency management. Make sure you have it installed.

To install the application dependencies, run poetry install in the root of this project.

To activate the python environment with all the dependencies installed, run poetry shell.

All subsequent commands are assumed to be run inside that environment.

Dependencies are captured in the pyproject.toml file. Some interesting ones are:

• Python 3.11 - this is the version I use on my dev laptop.
• atlassian-python-api for interacting with Jira.
• lorem for generating random strings.
• toml for configuration format.
• tinydb for storing json as a db, since it claims to have API compatibility with Mongo, and for this small exercise, it is good enough.
• pandas and matplotlib for data manipulation and plotting.

Running

All the programs have sensible defaults, and you have to set only the configuration. Copy config.toml.sample to config.toml and set the values. The project key corresponds to the Jira Project.

The three functionalities are provided as three script entry points:

• poetry run gentickets -- to create the the random tickets
• poetry run populatedb -- to download the high priority tickets
• poetry run plottickets -- to generate plot of high priority tickets/min

Output

See output/issues.json for a dump of the Jira issues my program created.

Plotted output