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Review initialisation tags for Person and Benefit Unit objects

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by locating where Person and Benefit Unit attributes receive the @Lag and @NullInitialised tags, then compare those definitions with the candidate attributes listed in the issue. Check which omissions cause crashes or changed simulation results and identify the expected initialization behavior. Done means the appropriate tags are applied and the affected simulations no longer crash or produce unintended differences; the issue names no tests to run.

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Description

Tags @Lag and @NullInitialised have been added to the project to facilitate initialisation of attributes at the start of each simulated period. These tags have not been added to candidate attributes where the model was found to crash or generate different results. The issue is most accute for the Person objects, where tags have been omitted from the following candiates:

  • yMiscPersGrossMonth
  • yCapitalPersMonth
  • yPensPersGrossMonth
  • yEmpPersGrossMonth
  • yNonBenPersGrossMonthL1
  • yNonBenPersGrossMonth
  • labWageFullTimeHrly
  • labHrsWorkWeekL1
  • labHrsWorkWeek;
  • demPartnerNYearL1
  • xEquivYear
  • labWageFullTimeHrly
  • labHrsWorkEnumWeek
Dominant language
Java
Stars
26
Forks
38
Avg merge
15h 18m
Merged PRs (30d)
10

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