Birthday Reminders do not take into account birthdays exactly one week from now.

[nihalramesh12629]

The User Guide mentions Displays a contacts’ birthday if they are happening within a week from the system’s current date. I presume the system's current date, is today. I added a birthday of Nov 22, which is a week from now. However, the reminder does not pop up, when I start my application. I believe it is a edge case, and it does not consider the 7th day.

[nus-pe-bot]

Team's Response

Thank you for pointing this out, we will correct it should there be future iterations.

Items for the Tester to Verify

:question: Issue type

Team chose [type.FeatureFlaw] Originally [type.FunctionalityBug]

• [x] I disagree

Reason for disagreement:

As mentioned above, a functionality bug occurs when a functionality does not work as expected. The User Guide explicitly states that the system displays birthdays happening within a week from the system’s current date. A birthday on November 22 (seven days from today) should trigger a reminder because it falls "within a week" as per the natural interpretation of the phrase.

Observed Behavior: The application fails to include the 7th day in its range, deviating from this expectation. This is a clear "off-by-one" logic error, which is a classic example of a functionality bug.

Feature flaws generally arise from design decisions that may result in a suboptimal user experience but are intentional or inherent to the feature's design. This issue, however, is not the result of a design decision but an implementation mistake:

Why It’s Not Intentional:

• There is no rational reason to exclude the 7th day from the range.

• The exclusion of the 7th day is not documented or mentioned anywhere in the User Guide, implying it is unintentional.

Consistency Problem:

• If the feature was designed to only check 6 days ahead, the documentation would have explicitly stated this limitation. Instead, the current phrasing, "within a week," includes the 7th day by default.

Classifying this as a feature flaw minimizes the severity of the issue.

User Confusion:

• Users will reasonably expect that a birthday exactly 7 days from today is "within a week." When it is not displayed, it can lead to misunderstanding or missed reminders, especially for edge cases.

Contradiction to Documentation:

• The issue is not about user preference but about the feature failing to operate as described in the documentation. This mismatch is a functionality issue, not a design flaw.

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