Tuppy! Mobile Robot Tester
Source: T-Mobile introduces the software testing robot
We currently live in a world where there are quite a number of different operating systems, including mobile ones, used by an even larger number of manufacturers of smartphones and tablet computers. It is quite natural that all this brings in a sufficiently large “fragmentation” of software and hardware of mobile devices, which negatively affects in some cases consumer qualities of mobile devices. According to information from the US mobile operator T-Mobile, the vast majority of registered returns of mobile devices occurred due to difficulties associated with flaws and errors in the software, which left the needs of the company's customers unsatisfied.
In 2007, one of the engineers at T-Mobile came up with a rather fresh idea at the time of implementing comprehensive testing and testing of mobile device software. Engineers produced a robot called Tappy, which is now engaged in testing and testing various smartphones and tablet computers, before T-Mobile starts offering them to its customers.
Software management system robot Tappy simulates many scenarios of user actions, including the most unlikely options that are practically not encountered while using mobile electronics. The whole complex allows you to perform a thorough check of the hardware and software of the device. During testing, the robot checks the response speed of the device to various events, the convenience and efficiency of the keyboard, the performance when playing video and audio, the quality of the Internet connection, the web browser and much more.
Such a comprehensive check allows you to identify all the shortcomings of the device, determine the moments of freezing, “freezing” and other problems associated with the functioning of software and hardware. To identify all these problems, the Tappy robot has a camera installed above the table on which the tests are being performed, and the smartphone is controlled using a slightly primitive hand-manipulator ...
In order to get to the store shelves, any mobile device must pass Tappy tests within a day without any, even the most insignificant problems. According to T-Mobile, after the start of the application of the Tappy robot, the number of returns decreased by 75 percent, and this is already a very impressive result.
We currently live in a world where there are quite a number of different operating systems, including mobile ones, used by an even larger number of manufacturers of smartphones and tablet computers. It is quite natural that all this brings in a sufficiently large “fragmentation” of software and hardware of mobile devices, which negatively affects in some cases consumer qualities of mobile devices. According to information from the US mobile operator T-Mobile, the vast majority of registered returns of mobile devices occurred due to difficulties associated with flaws and errors in the software, which left the needs of the company's customers unsatisfied.
In 2007, one of the engineers at T-Mobile came up with a rather fresh idea at the time of implementing comprehensive testing and testing of mobile device software. Engineers produced a robot called Tappy, which is now engaged in testing and testing various smartphones and tablet computers, before T-Mobile starts offering them to its customers.
Software management system robot Tappy simulates many scenarios of user actions, including the most unlikely options that are practically not encountered while using mobile electronics. The whole complex allows you to perform a thorough check of the hardware and software of the device. During testing, the robot checks the response speed of the device to various events, the convenience and efficiency of the keyboard, the performance when playing video and audio, the quality of the Internet connection, the web browser and much more.
Such a comprehensive check allows you to identify all the shortcomings of the device, determine the moments of freezing, “freezing” and other problems associated with the functioning of software and hardware. To identify all these problems, the Tappy robot has a camera installed above the table on which the tests are being performed, and the smartphone is controlled using a slightly primitive hand-manipulator ...
In order to get to the store shelves, any mobile device must pass Tappy tests within a day without any, even the most insignificant problems. According to T-Mobile, after the start of the application of the Tappy robot, the number of returns decreased by 75 percent, and this is already a very impressive result.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/152881/
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