[Announcement] We will test Waldo Sessions on PRs

[g123k]

Hi everyone!

As this repo is open source, we have PRs from newcomers, where we can obviously evaluate the code, but not directly the application by itself by testing it. Of course, we can check out the code and ensure everything is OK, but it's more of a developer's job. What I mean by that, is the fact that someone with a non-developer role like @teolemon shouldn't have to build the app to ensure everything is well implemented before validating a PR.

That's why we have decided to test the Waldo Sessions.

What are Waldo Sessions?

It allows testing Android and iOS applications directly from a browser in an Android emulator or iOS simulator.
The free plan includes 100 min per month to test (= also called sessions), but the team of Waldo is ready to offer us some extra as we are an open-source project.

What are the benefits for us?

As explained, it will allow everyone in the team to test the feature… but once a session is done, it can be replayed.
It's basically a shareable link, which includes:

• A timeline of events
• Logs
• Network requests

Here is an example: https://share.waldo.com/7d46e7e9351d8eac7f0ad326c5d7db2e024024?tab=timeline

Who can test?

Only selected people can be considered as a team on Waldo.
Basically, all maintainers of this repo can join it, just ask me or @teolemon to join it.

How will it be implemented?

Nothing is done yet, and you're welcome to comment on this, but here is the initial implementation planed.
For each PR, once an Android build is generated (= or basically an APK), it will be uploaded to Waldo. And the same goes for iOS.
For the two variants, a link will be published in a comment to allow maintainers to directly access it.
At the beginning, it will only be for PRs, but we can expand it to releases, for example.

[g123k]

It seems that the upload works well.
If you want to have access to Waldo, please create an account and share me your email address, so I can add you to the organization.

(cc @M123-dev @monsieurtanuki)