You’re a software engineer at TechPower, a consulting company that wants to expand its reach in the tech market by incorporating more programming languages and technologies. This will help it create products while hiring from a more diverse pool of engineers. For TechPower’s latest project, your task is to design an independent music-sharing platform where new artists can upload their music, putting it in front of new eyes (and ears!) for free. Using Simple Build Tool (SBT) and IntelliJ IDEA, you’ll set up your environment to prepare for running a project in Scala, a language that combines object-oriented programming and the functional paradigm. Keeping in mind the platform's users and the kinds of content it will host, you’ll define the main entities and dependencies as part of a Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagram. You’ll implement your design with Scala classes and traits, preparing the utility for function additions later on.

TechPower wants to grow in the tech market and enhance its presence by adding new technologies to its toolbox. Scala is a good option as it combines functional and object-oriented programming paradigms. As a software engineer, your task is to add features and functionality to the consulting company’s current project: a music-sharing platform where artists can share their music with the world. Using Scala, Simple Build Tool (SBT), and IntelliJ IDEA, you’ll design and implement functions for previously defined entities, then improve them by refactoring. When you’re done, you’ll know how to apply functional programming concepts to designing and implementing system functionality in a Scala project.

It’s almost showtime! TechPower, a consulting company, has a partially implemented music-sharing platform, created in Scala, that leverages the language’s combination of object-oriented programming and the functional paradigm. As a software engineer at TechPower, your task is to ensure the prototype’s codebase hits a high note before going live. With the help of the Scala ecosystem libraries, you’ll design and create test specifications and samples, keeping in mind functionality, possible outcomes, and data values. You’ll implement your tests using SimpleBuild Tool (SBT) or IntelliJ IDEA, debug them, check corner cases, and verify that you’ve covered all reasonable scenarios. When you’re done, TechPower’s music-sharing platform will be robust, reliable, and ready for the spotlight!