Google uses robots to test touch screen delays

The touch screen/touchpad has become one of the most important interactions for mobile devices, and its sensitivity and accuracy have a major impact on the user experience. Imagine if you click on the screen for a long time and you don’t respond or you can’t miss something. So it is important to ensure the quality of the touch screen. In the past, this work was basically done by quality assurance personnel, but it was time-consuming and laborious and did not guarantee the accuracy of objectivity and evaluation. Google uses robots to do this.

According to Fran?ois Beaufort, Google's "Happy Evangelist", the micro-robot is called "TouchBot" and was built by Finland's automated testing, equipment vision system testing and engineering services company OptoFidelity. It enables end-to-end touchscreen/touchpad latency testing for Android and Chrome OS devices. As you can see from the video below, the TouchBot constantly clicks on different parts of the device screen and then measures the response time of the touch screen accordingly. Use it to help identify certain hardware and software related issues and then adjust accordingly.

Touch screen delay is one of the many complaints users have about Android. In order to ensure the quality of Android devices, Google has to strengthen the test. The significance of TouchBot for testers is to avoid the hassle of manual testing. Of course, if you are interested in testing, you can try it yourself here. Or if you are interested in how the robot works, you can check it out here, and Google has already given it to open source.

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