> .ROLE
PROGRAMMER
> .DETAILS
Extend the relation class from the previous project to support union and natural join. Include at least 10 automatic tests that validate the functionality of both operators. The majority of the tests should cover natural join. Every test must be documented with at least one sentence justifying its existence. Be sure to cover corner cases (of which there are several).
Implement a least-fixed-point algorithm to interpret rules from the Datalog input before interpreting the queries. The rules should add new facts to the relations in the database. By way of clarification, the processing of queries in this project is the same as for the last project. The only thing new is the interpretation of the rules to generate new facts before answering the queries.
The output is the same as for the last project too except that there is an additional first statement: “Schemes populated after n passes through the Rules.” where n is the number of times the least-fixed-point algorithm processes the rule set. As was done in the other projects, for pass-off purposes, be sure your output matches precisely the examples below. The first line is the string “Schemes populated after n passes through the Rules.”, with n replaced by the number of iterations it takes to converge to a solution.)
> .TECHNOLOGY
C++, VISUAL STUDIO