effortless

It is an experiment to fill efforts using browser automation and save the pain of being harassed and have a feeling of not doing anything about it. The big picture is we should save every minute by making new abstractions over existing apps.

How to use this project

This project makes the entire effort updating process automated. The way it works is you provide Travis CI with credentials in form of 2 environment variables - USERNAME and PASSWORD with your actual values for these credentials. Travis CI uses these credentials to login on your behalf and fills your timesheets. Advanced usage involves an optional 3rd env variable PROJECT, for which the value is id of the project on Monday in DOM. Typical values are 0_0_0_0 & projectA_0_0_0.

Setup Travis CI for scheduled jobs in 5 steps

1. Make a free account or login with an existing account at Github.
2. Fork effortless project that makes a copy of the project in your account.
3. Make a free account at a leading Continuous Integration SaaS software Travis CI using Github credentials or login with an existing account.
4. Add environment variables in Travis CI:

USERNAME: xa123456
PASSWORD: password
PROJECT: 0_7_nonproj (optional)

5. At 5pm on one of these days, add a cron job in Travis CI so that it runs a build everyday.

How to stop using this project

If you decide to stop using the project for any reason, you should turn off builds for project listed under Travis CI profile.

Security and privacy - the internals

effortless is built with security as a part of design. A few things to know would be:

1. Your username and password are stored on Travis CI in a private account that is accessible only to the you.
2. The login credentials are provided to effortless in runtime and after a build succeeds it gets destroyed.
3. Automation runs in no logging mode, so there are no chances of it being logged anywhere. These logs are private and is available for you on Travis CI to inspect.
4. The credentials leave to destination on https protocol so it is safe throughout its journey.
5. The source code is on Github and there is no monkey business in logic.

Development pre-requisites

node, npm
java8 or java version "1.8.0_xxx"

Install node and npm using nvm

Install

npm i

Run

USERNAME=xa123456 PASSWORD=password npm start

Console output

$ USERNAME=xa123456 PASSWORD=password npm start

> [email protected] start /Users/pr375903/Development/labs/effortless
> npm t


> [email protected] test /Users/pr375903/Development/labs/effortless
> nightwatch tests

Starting selenium server... started - PID:  23355

[Efforts] Test Suite
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Running:  efforts
 ✔ Element <#username> was visible after 124 milliseconds.
 ✔ Element <.appstore> was visible after 2831 milliseconds.
 ✔ Element <#mainContent> was visible after 2172 milliseconds.

OK. 3 assertions passed. (31.886s)

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