PathCheck GPS + Safe Places + Feature Flags + Test Tools Video

Owned by Diarmid Mackenzie
Last updated: Aug 11, 2020

27 minute video covering how to test PathCheck GPS & Safe Places function, with a particular focus on Feature Flags and Tools that exist to support testing.

For a simpler video that skips these details and just shows the end-user function, see: https://pathcheck.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TEST/pages/247660607

A couple of caveats:

  • JSON Location Data import: at the time of making the video, there was a bug in the app that meant that hashes were not stored. This meant that Exposure Notifications could not be generated for these data points. This is now fixed.

  • I was not able to show Local Download of JSON data because this doesn’t work in Perfecto cloud. It certainly works on personal devices where you can share over email or slack. It probably workss with locally hosted emulators as well.

  • The tools links in the video are all of the form https://diarmidmackenzie.pythonanywhere.com - we have now moved to using https://pathcheck.pythonanywhere.com


Here’s the video. It’s a little slow, mostly because of the sluggishness of the Perfecto device - unfortunately the Confluence video player does not have the ability to watch at double speed. Sorry…

URL References

Below are some of the URLs used in the video.

Staging YAML file - to give the app access to Test Safe Places instances

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Path-Check/trusted-authorities/master/staging/authorities.1.0.1.yaml

Safe Places Contact Tracer UI to support Sharing Location Data

https://staging.spl.extremesolution.com/trace


Import Location History from URL (these hashes are valid, but there is a bug which means the Mobile App discards them)

https://pathcheck.pythonanywhere.com/location-data?latitude&longitude=13&points=10

Or with lots of data points (note: these hashes are invalid, random numbers, so won’t work with Exposure Notifications - this is the case whenever you ask for 288 or more data points.)
https://pathcheck.pythonanywhere.com/location-data?longitude=42&latitude=13&points=4032

Analyze JSON file for data reliability

https://pathcheck.pythonanywhere.com/upload

Fast Track Exposure Notification (without a need for Safe Places)
https://pathcheck.pythonanywhere.com/yaml?longitude=42&latitude=13&hds=4


Exposure Notification Scale Testing (both large numbers of HDs, and large data loads from individual HDs).
https://pathcheck.pythonanywhere.com/yaml?longitude=42&latitude=13&hds=100