This procedure is a complete misunderstanding of reality. Actually, why people think this approach is even feasible?\u00a0 Perhaps the entertainment media, which often makes everything look easy, has conveyed this message accidentally.\u00a0 The creation of a digital product has many phases which have to be thought even before committing to develop. Often it is hard for people to believe this, however it is true.<\/p>\n
For this post, we searched for a diagram which might offer a “holistic” view of the many possible testing phases to produce a new digital product. We found the following diagram from Itamar Gilad<\/a> (Figure 1) that might be understandable for “non-developers”.<\/p>\n Girald’s diagram offers a \u201cholistic\u201d view\u00a0 illustrating most important validation methods in different categories of\u00a0 product development.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is a very good question. The use of satellite data adds a dimension in our validation process, particularly on the development side.\u00a0 Clarifying, umaze harnesses the accuracy<\/strong> of the Galileo Satellite Network<\/a> (Figure 2).\u00a0 We must have this “technical” capability right constantly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With umaze we should assure a constant and smooth communication between the players’ phones and the satellite data when they walk at slow speed outdoors.\u00a0 Often tests about accuracy are in “fast” speeds, from running to driving, etc. Or when one is stationary. In our case the players are moving slowly in short distances, because they are solving a maze while walking. This is a development challenge per se, at a software engineering dimension<\/a>.\u00a0 Hence we have to be testing constantly at this level.<\/p>\n To clarify what we mean as testing, oxford dictionary defines test as: a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something, especially before it is taken into widespread use. In the case of computer science, the idea of testing emerged in the last century. For example, Glenford<\/span> Myers in late 1970s publish The art of software testing<\/a>, which is a classic today and the book is still utilized. In all these decades, our perception of testing has evolved as the cartoon (Figure 3) indicates:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today there are many methods, models and approaches for testing. For example, in testing engineering they talk about: black, grey and white boxes.\u00a0 Henard C., Papadakis M., Harman M., Jia Y., and Le Traon Y. 2016. Comparing white-box and black-box test prioritization.<\/a> In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering<\/i> (ICSE \u201916<\/i>). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 523\u2013534.<\/p>\n Now with location based<\/a> services the complexity increases.\u00a0 For example:\u00a0 O. Aktouf, T. Zhang, J. Gao and T. Uehara, “Testing Location-Based Function Services for Mobile Applications,<\/a>” 2015 IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering, San Francisco Bay, CA, 2015, pp. 308-314.<\/p>\n However now let’s answer the question:\u00a0 What is the status of umaze?<\/strong><\/p>\n On one side, we are in an assessment and fact finding phase, while aiming to build a community. On the other hand, we are testing and experimenting from the technology perspective.<\/p>\n While testing the technology we are using\u00a0Gilad<\/a> words: “Idea validation is really only limited by our creativity and willingness to step outside our comfort zone<\/em>.”<\/p>\n Here you can see a video of a non-developer testing a new version of umaze at the Urheilupuisto Park<\/a>. The video has comments for our star developer, because even if we record umaze’s screen, one can’t see what is happening in the player’s context while walking. The test is done with an Honor 10<\/a>, which doesn’t have support for Galileo satellites.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.umaze.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2020-05-12-at-10.14.10-1024x485.png\")
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