SE401:Group32:August 19

Experiment/Evaluation wrap up and Meeting with Ian

Experiment/Evaluation wrap up

• Finished collecting evaluation study from the test subjects
• Should start to collate the data from the evaluation

Meeting with Ian

• Discussed the evaluation
  • Summarized the main points regarding the evaluation
  • The XML generator part would be solved if given more time

• Emulators
  • Found that the Sun emulators return incorrect layout information about the components on the screen. However this seems to be fine for the vendor specific emulators.
  • Regarding the vendor specific emulators inconsistencies with the following were found:
    • 1. The component size - Emulator for the particular device did not return the correct width and height of a component
      2. The Image screen space usage - Images displayed on the emulator took up a different amount of screen space than when executed on the physical device.
      3. Memory usage - Different memory consumption values were returned for the execution of a test script.
  • Develop examples showing layout and timing behavior
  • Also add functionality to connect to other devices using Bluetooth.
• J2ME API
  • The Java ME API is limited in what kind of information can be retrieved about a mobile device. E.g. The battery level cannot be found. However counter to this example, the Motorola vendor allows for the access to the battery level via a request of a system property.

• Conference Paper
  • Start writing the evaluation section for the conference paper.
  • Might be good to incorporate things like example scripts in the evaluation section.
  • Focus on getting all the text out, and then can work on filtering out repetition later.

By Next Meeting (Mon 25 Aug 1pm)

• Aim to have the battery level thing done
• Do a bluetooth connectivity test
• Try to think of where it would be possible to have a new kind of check supported!