SE401:Group32:July 4

Meeting with Ian

Architecture

• Sticking to the scenario that Sakura proposed (Sending over the entire test script instruction set to be executed on the phone).
  • Send the actual application along with Testing.java.
• Look into extending the XML schema to be applicable to all devices. E.g. If an Image is too large to be displayed on a particular device then that images or test case should be omitted.
• Stick with the Bluetooth technology and put aside Java RMI.
• Focus on Functional testing for now, performance later.
• The bluetooth connection will be left open. Later if we figure it out, we can try closing the connection to save resources.
• Mobile does all the gathering of data, PC puts it in a legible format
  • Make PC figure out the testing results

Concrete scenarios

• Need to looking into more complex/interesting scenarios that take into account the mobile devices execution environment. E.g. Network issues such as unavailability, Power Consumption on the mobile device, Timing issues (non-functional) and also possibly bandwidth issues with bluetooth.
• Basically a look into conditional constraints that address these matters.
• Want to be able to specify/test the general layout of a form. E.g. Given a component x, it should be left of component y, and below component z.
• Look into multi-homing. That is given a set of communication methods (e.g. Bluetooth, WiFi or GPRS) which is the best candidate to use for a particular situation. Again this goes back to looking into the mobile devices execution environment.

Scenario revision

• Scenario 7 - not feasible
• Scenario 9 - functional component focus, not performance
• Scenario 10 - Look at it in more detail => it is an interesting case
• Scenario 11 - execution environment for the device
• Scenario 12 - Definitely should be done, simple to do
• Scenario 13 - Usability testing, important
• Scenario 14 - Express constraints as percentage

• New scenario 1 - Have a subset of components that should be displayed on the small screen
• New scenario 2 - Measure energy levels, battery consumption

Conference Paper

• Ian is to identify a suitable structure for the conference paper relating to the project and to draft what should go in each of the sections.
• Ian will also take a look at some of the references that have been brought to light during the course of the project.
• Once a structure is formed, specific sections will be allocated to begin writing.

For next time

• Revise scenarios
  • How we're going to express all these scenarios in XML
• Implement fully the testing application i.e. simulate events on phone and send data back to PC

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