Fighting COVID-19 with MIT Safe Paths and Crowd Testing — feat. Todd DeCapua

Show notes

A rapid call to action for testers to help build MIT's Safe Paths COVID-19 contact-tracing app. Todd DeCapua and Jonathan Wright record an urgent intro about MIT's Safe Paths, a mobile app that uses GPS and Bluetooth location data to help people trace exposure and self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss capturing realistic movement data across trains, buses and the underground, anonymizing sensitive locations via geofencing, and using GPX logs. Jonathan draws on his Copenhagen smart-city project, where they synthesized five billion historical transactions from reference data to train algorithms and avoid false positives. The episode is a crowd-testing call to action inviting testers, developers and UX designers to volunteer via coronavirus.fo and the covidsafepaths Slack. **In this episode:** - Test Data Management - Mobile Testing - Performance Testing - Mentoring &