tebinraouf/CPM

Critical Path Method

Critical Path Method

An application to find the Critical Path of a project

Assumptions

1. First line is the header.
2. The input is comma separated.
3. The input should be in the following format order: TaskName,Duration,Predecessor.
4. If there are more than one predecessor, separate them with a comma such as B,2,C,D,E.
5. If a task doesn't have any predecessors, it should be labeled NA.

Examples

1. Basic
2. Basic - Two Starting Tasks
3. 10 Tasks
4. 26 Tasks
5. 50 Tasks

Program Structure

There are 5 main classes to generate all the critical and none critical paths of a project. The classes are:

1. FileObject class to parse a text file into TaskNode objects and generate a Graph object.
2. TaskNode class represents a task.
3. Edge class represents connections between TaskNode objects.
4. Graph class represents tasks and their relationships in a graph structure using a modified depth-first algorithm.
5. Path class generates TaskNode's properties such as earlyStart, earlyFinish, lateStart, lateFinish, slack, isOnCriticalPath.

To parse a text file follow these steps:

///1. `FileObject` to parse the input into `TaskNode` objects
let fileObject = FileObject("/Users/Tebin/Desktop/CPM/inputs/veryComplex.txt")

///2. `Graph` generated from `getGraph` method of `FileObject`
let graph = fileObject.getGraph()

///3. `Path` to generate all paths in a `Graph`
let path = Path(graph)
path.generate()

///4. View CPM for critical paths
view(path, for: .Critical)

///5. View CPM for none critical paths
view(path, for: .None)

///6. View the project summary
summary(path)