Can input 2 interviews which can happen on same time but not detecting it as same time.

[himethcodes]

When I input 2 interview for 2 different internships but on the same time it noted down it without detecting that it clashes on the same time as below example.

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Team's Response

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The 'Original' Bug

[The team marked this bug as a duplicate of the following bug]

When I enter a time within a time range which I already have internship app is updating it without showing error.

When I input same time and date for a internship he is correctly giving a output as below.

But when I enter same date and time within the range of the interview I already had app is updating it without any error as below.

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_{[original: nus-cs2113-AY2425S2/pe-interim#599] [original labels: type.FunctionalityBug severity.Medium]}

Their Response to the 'Original' Bug

[This is the team's response to the above 'original' bug]

Thanks for raising this!

We did consider a implementing a more comprehensive check—comparing the start and end timings of every individual interview against each other to ensure no overlap. However, performing these comparisons for every entry is quite time consuming. Thus, for our current iteration, we focused on implementing prevention of duplicate entries for adding internships, creating the functionality to add multiple rounds of interviews and sort interviews for internships. In future iterations, we plan to address timing overlaps and resolve this bug.

Items for the Tester to Verify

❓ Issue duplicate status

Team chose to mark this issue as a duplicate of another issue (as explained in the Team's response above)

• I disagree

Reason for disagreement: This issue is not a duplicate of the original bug. In the original issue, the app correctly detects and blocks a duplicate time for the same internship.
However, the bug I reported is different:

It allows users to enter two interviews for different internships at the exact same time, without any conflict warning or error message.

This behavior is not detected by the current implementation, making it a separate issue from the one reported earlier.

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❓ Issue response

Team chose [response.NotInScope]

• I disagree

Reason for disagreement: This issue should not be marked as "Not in Scope". Detecting clashes between overlapping interview timings, even if they belong to different internships, is important for realistic and useful scheduling.

As users are likely to schedule multiple interviews during internship season, the app should notify them if two events clash. Allowing overlaps could lead to missed interviews or scheduling confusion.

Even if the detailed overlap-checking wasn't included in this version, it's still a bug, not something that should be ignored as out-of-scope.

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❓ Issue type

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

• I disagree

Reason for disagreement: The correct type should be [type.FeatureFlaw] because:

The feature (interview scheduling) is incomplete—it does not fully solve the problem of managing internship interviews.

A proper scheduling feature should detect time conflicts, even across different internships.

The current behavior fails user expectations and lacks input validation for realistic scheduling.

This is not a typical “unexpected behavior” or missing input check, but rather a design flaw in how the feature handles conflicting events.

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