Cryptic error message, doesn't tell user what to do

[therizhao]

Expected

• Error message should tell user what to do

Actual

• Current UI shows tasks should have official deadline
• What is an official deadline? -> Not a standard term
• The addition of one more error message makes it even harder to figure out the error (Index should be consistent with week number)

[nus-pe-bot]

Team's Response

Thank you for your response!

After careful consideration, our team will reject this report as a bug as the error is mentioned in the 2nd point. Furthermore, our team thinks that the term "official deadline" is self-explanatory due to the nature of deadlines in CS2103/T. Additionally, in AB3, if you take a look at the example of emails, this is how the error message is formatted as well. Thus, our team believes that it is acceptable for the error message to contain more than 1 reasoning.

Once again, thank you for your response!

Items for the Tester to Verify

:question: Issue response

Team chose [response.Rejected]

• [x] I disagree

Reason for disagreement: Firstly, this is labelled as a Feature flaw not a bug.

Secondly. Wait, is this app expecting the user to memorize all the CS2103 deadlines for the whole term? If memorizing all the deadlines in CS2103 is a pre-requisite to attend CS2103, then I have nothing to say.

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:question: Issue severity

Team chose [severity.Low] Originally [severity.Medium]

• [x] I disagree

Reason for disagreement: Nope, it's not Low. This flaw has affected my user operations.

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