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Adam Leon Smith is looking at a number of solutions for Test Data
His own Google location history. 5 years of data rebased into 86 different versions of March 2020. He has tools to do this manipulation if you want to (see the test plan doc)
If you are using your own long-term location history for testing, be mindful of privacy concerns, and keep the data to yourself (do not share with the project) unless you have explicit agreement otherwise.
He has a ML contact who can use this as seed data to generate many more similar trails.
Huw Price previously solved this problem for smart cities project, Jonathan Wright has reached out for the 5billion historical journeys previously generated (GPX format).
We have a lead on a tech that allows a user to program alternate GPS coordinates into their phone, to simulate being in different locations. Could be a powerful enabler, as testers will be able to use test data from anywhere in the world.
Jonathon Wright is qualifying this opportunity. Working with Eran Kinsbruner around using the same stack we used to test smart city mobile apps (https://youtu.be/wuQt97rTa1Y)
Test Data / Mock HAs for Automation. Problem that will need solving. Probably give to PQA Test as part of their Automation mission - DIarmid to brief on Monday.
Diarmid is looking with Dev at whether we can bypass the complexities of the Ap’s interfaces on location data by isolating the relevant components of the App in a pure software harness, and simply feeding location data in directly. Test Strategy for Location Data Filtering / Presentation Algorithms
Security / Privacy
Privacy & Security - Current Status
Pritesh Patel + colleagues from BioConnect are experts in this space & starting to pull together an overall strategy, based on the previous bullet as a starting point.
Diarmid Mackenzie has a string of 30 Privacy & Security concerns about the project that need to be channeled to the right people for review. He’s figuring out how to handle.Adam Leon Smith has raised a feature request for a brief architectural deployment/security note on this for Safe Places
Testing in Production
Jonathon Wright is taking the lead on Testing in Production - figuring out what we need to do, and how to make it happen. Testing in Production (TiP)
Working with Todd DeCapua around Testing in Production (TiP) / Telemetry Data (Firebase) / Data Visualisation (Splunk for Good) Splunk - APM, Data, Data Visualization, and more...
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Testing Community support (Not Blocked - needs someone’s time & energy! Who can step up?)
Somebody taking an explicit “Scrum master”-like role in how we are all working together, what’s effective, what’s ineffective & how we can improve
Identifying & resolving team impediments
Of course, everyone can do this, but it would be great to have one or more people making this a real focus.
Security / Privacy (Blocked)
No active testing in this space.
Pritesh Patel + colleagues from BioConnect are experts in this space & happy to contribute when we are ready.
Issues we are aware of are not getting prioritized by Dev, so not clear it is worth putting effort into finding more.
Diarmid Mackenzie has a string of 30 Privacy & Security concerns about the project that need to be channeled to the right people for review. He’s figuring out how to handle.
Adam Leon Smith has raised a feature request for a brief architectural deployment/security note on this for Safe Places
Key impediments for the team
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