MoneySuperMarket.com

Java Developer Technical Test

Overview

MoneySuperMarket have gone Bitcoin crazy and decided to allow their customers to keep an eye on the best exchanges with the highest selling price.

This application calls the below Bitcoin exchanges to retrieve selling price information:

• https://blockchain.info/ticker
• https://api.exmo.com/v1/ticker

It finds the exchange with the best (highest) price and returns the price and the exchange name.

Prerequisites

1. Download community edition of IntelliJ for Windows or MacOs and open the application when the installation has completed.

2. Download the MSM technical test project files HERE and save locally.

3. Unzip to a folder of your choice.

4. Open IntelliJ

5. Select File > New > Project from Existing Sources...

6. When the file navigator opens select build.gradle from the route of the downloaded code folder

7. Open a terminal navigate to the ./backend-task folder

8. Execute: ./gradlew bootRun and ensure the project builds, tests and runs successfully

9. Open http://localhost:8080/exchangeapp/highestprice/ in a browser and view the response from the application e.g.:

Technologies

• Java 17
• Gradle
• JUnit
• Mockito