Frontend of the Marriage Allowance application

Summary

This service allow a customer to apply for Marriage Allowance, and to modify an existing Marriage Allowance application.

This service is also known as TAMC - Transfer of Allowance for Married Couples, and should not be confused with Married Couple's Allowance

This service provides the frontend endpoint for the TAMC API.

Tax rates

The service should now dynamically pick the tax year from the current system date. The tax year rates must be updated every tax year before 6 April in tax rates configuration file to pick the new tax rates. If the rates are not updated it will take consider zero (0) for all the fields from tax-rates files.

Requirements

This service is written in Scala and Play, and needs at least a JRE to run.

Running the application

sbt -Dplay.http.router=testOnlyDoNotUseInAppConf.Routes run

Testing the application

• Unit Tests

  • Unit test the entire test suite: sbt test

  • Unit test a single spec file: sbt "test:testOnly *fileName" (for e.g : sbt "test:testOnly *DivorceControllerTest")

• Integration tests

  sbt it/test

Acronyms

In the context of this application we use the following acronyms and define their meanings. Provided you will also find a web link to discover more about the systems and technology.

• API: Application Programming Interface
• JRE: Java Runtime Environment
• JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
• NINO: National Insurance Number
• URL: Uniform Resource Locator

License

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