childcare calculator frontend

childcare-calculator-frontend

The Childcare Calculator will help parents quickly self-assess the options for their childcare support, allowing them to make a decision on which scheme will best suit their needs. The Childcare Calculator will calculate the data input by the users, inform them of their eligibility and how much support that they could receive for the Tax-Free Childcare (TFC), Tax Credits (TC), Employer-Supported Childcare (ESC) and Free Hours (including free hours for working parents) schemes.

TC and ESC eligibility requires the user to already be receiving them, if they answer that they do not get vouchers or TC then the income questions will be skipped. The users are not informed of being ineligible for those on the summary page.

Free hours schemes is available to everyone regardless of work status or country, however England users may be able to get free hours for working parents instead if eligible.

The Childcare Calculator invokes cc-eligibility microservice(Eligibility documentation).

The Childcare Calculator Frontend service, collects data input by the users from the fields on the presented pages. This data is collated and passed to the Childcare Calculator backend processes. The results are returned to the Childcare Calculator Frontend service to display to the user.

Running the service To run the microservices locally start the dependent microservices using service manager sm2 --start CCC_ALL

• Endpoint URL : /childcare-calc

• Port Number : 9381

Testing

Unit Tests

To run the unit tests for the application run the following:

1. sbt test

To run a single unit test/spec

1. sbt
2. testOnly *SpecToUse* - Example being the class name of your UnitSpec

Test Coverage

To run the test coverage suite

1. sbt clean coverage test coverageReport

Acceptance Tests

NOTE: Cucumber/acceptance tests are available in a separate project at: https://github.com/hmrc/childcare-calculator-acceptance-tests

Performance Tests

NOTE: Performance tests are available in a separate project at: https://github.com/hmrc/childcare-calculator-performance-tests

Messages

To provide messages files with variables that are passed in then use the following format:

@Messages("cc.compare.total.household.spend", totalHouseholdSpend)
cc.compare.total.household.spend = You told us your childcare costs are {0} a month

License

This code is open source software licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.