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Challenge Overview

Challenge Objectives

Project Background

This project aims at assigning a score to submissions based on their code quality
SonarQube is a tool that allows users to inspect the health of their code and identify issues that can improve the code quality

Technology Stack

Code access

This is the first contest and thus there is no existing source code. You will be writing the app from scratch. However, you will find that the code base and functionality is very similar to the existing submission processor code.

Individual requirements

Create a Kafka Listener (Major Requirement)

Create a nodejs based Kafka listener that will listen to multiple topics on Kafka.
The topics of concern are related to the event where a submission is created or updated.
Use no-kafka module

Create a SonarQube service(Major Requirement)

This is part of the same app as the kafka listener.
For each message that arrives in Kafka, check if the message is related to the Submission resource.
If so, then that message will contain a url about the submission’s location. Download the submission and proceed to pass it on to SonarQube for inspection.
Retrieve the results for the submission’s code quality and prepare a review payload to submit to the submission api.
All details for this are shared in the contest forum

Create Unit Tests (Minor Requirement)

Deployment guide and validation document

Provide a README.md that contains instructions on how to config, build, deploy the app locally, and deploy to heroku

Important Notes

Use async and await pattern in your code base. Please don’t use yields and generators. Use promises.
Lint your code base using the standard module.
Note that you will be using Nodejs version 10 (soon to be LTS release) for this project.

Zip your code base and upload it to Topcoder.