arithmetic-expression-calculator

Arithmetic Expressions Calculator

Short Description

Create a program to calculate arithmetic expressions using TDD approach.

Topics

• Unit Testing
• TDD
• Testing tools

Requirements

Create a programm to calculate arithmetic expression that is provided as string. It should have the following functionality:

• Arithmetic expression parser. That takes expression string written in infix notation as an input and converts it to Reverse Polish Notation.

  const expression = "2 * ( 3 + 6 / 2 ) / 4"
   
  convertToRPN(expression)
  // "2 3 6 2 / + * 4 /"

• Reverse Polish Notation calculator. It takes expression string written in RPN as an input and calculates it respecting priority.

  const expression = "2 3 6 2 / + * 4 /"
   
  calculateRPNExpression(expression)
  // 3

Note

The following arthmetic operations are allowed: +, -, *, /. It shoud work with positive numbers. Invalid expressions should cause error.
Both modules should validate parameters and cause custom errors if necessary.

• Every input string has numbers, operators and parentheses separated by space
• Accept only strings as parameters (TypeError)
• Check expression for the correctness(invalid parentheses, double operators, restricted simbols) (BadSequenceError)
• Calculating 0 / 0 should have triggered an exception, not given result NaN.

Must be used TDD approach, which means that every test must be written before implementing the functionality.

Please use the following flow:

1. Write tests
2. Run tests
3. Commit
4. Make tests pass
5. Commit
6. Repeat from 1

Advanced Requirements

1. Use reporter tools to achive 100% code coverage.
2. Publish modules to npm.
3. Write documentation for each module.
4. Update program to evaluate expressions from console or file line by line using readline. Example: node index.js < expressions.txt.

  // expressions.txt
  5 + 8 * 3 / 2
  (5 + 8) * 3 / 2
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13
  //...
  ```