Not allowed to use '-' in name

[Btaykb]

Following the UG description, `Ravi s-o Veegan' was entered to test the application. Unfortunately, it seems like I am not allowed to input such a name, even though the UG states that it is allowed.

Only upon removal of s-o does the entry get entered.

Another example:

[nus-se-script]

Team's Response

Severity Downgraded - The rarity of instances with / in the name along with the intuitive workaround (see below) means that this is an issue that "appears only in very rare situations and causes a minor inconvenience only", resulting in a Low Severity.

Error type changed - The flaw is in the user instruction provided in the User Guide which was not incorporated into the product. Accordingly, the bug is accepted as a documentation bug, since a trivial change to the User Guide Ravi so Veegan instead of Ravi s-o Veegan would make sure that this arrives at the intended product behaviour.

Accepted bug.

Items for the Tester to Verify

❓ Issue type

Team chose [type.DocumentationBug]
Originally [type.FunctionalityBug]

• I disagree

Reason for disagreement: While I agree with the downgraded severity to Low since this case appears in rare cases (i.e. not everyone has a '-' in their names), I disagree that this issue is purely a documentation bug.

As seen from this screenshot taken from the module's website on Functionality Bugs, this issue is in line with what is considered a Functionality bug.

• Its behaviors defer from what is stated in the UG (i.e. Not allowed to use '-' in names fields)
• The addition of a '-' in names fields is not handled properly, even though such an action is counted as legitimate since there exists people whose names contain a '-'

Moreover, simply stating that this issue is a documentation bug because the User Guide's instructions were not updated to the actual behaviors of the product is not very fair, as that way any erroneous behaviors in features that are documented in the UG can be just called a documentation bug, when there could possibly be a flaw in the implementation of the feature as well.

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