[Commotion-dev] Commotion Android UI Testing

Dan Staples danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
Thu Sep 27 19:01:43 UTC 2012


You could build a DIY Faraday cage to simulate spotty coverage! :)

http://www.jeddaniels.com/2007/faraday-cage-part-1/

Dan

On 09/27/2012 01:35 PM, Andrew Reynolds wrote:
> On 09/27/2012 01:28 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On 09/27/2012 01:22 PM, Andrew Reynolds wrote:
>>> On 09/27/2012 12:34 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>> * how can the user determine if the mesh is not working?
>>>> * what kind of things do they try to do if the mesh isn't working?
>>>> * how does the user try troubleshooting?
>>> Any thoughts on how to do this in a scripted environment without making
>>> the procedure too cumbersome?
>>>
>>> Maybe stocking two phones, one working and one slightly misconfigured?
>> Yeah, the tricky part will be reproducing the non-working states.  If
>> there was just a single mesh node for a test mesh, and it was far away
>> so it had a spotty signal, that might work in this situation.
> Yeah, I'm not sure exactly how much room we're going to have at the
> Summit. It might be tough to reduce signal strength enough while keeping
> the test easy for one person to run.
>
> Would it be too advanced to have one phone on its own network so that
> the problem is that it's not joining the "friend's" existing network?
>
> -andrew
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Dan Staples
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