SoK/2023/StatusReport/Rishi Kumar

Accessibility: Work on improving the accessibility of Tokodon

This project aims to improve the accessibility of tokodon by writing appium tests.

Writing these tests would ensure a set standard of code quality is maintained in tokodon and with improved accessibility leading to a more efficient and convenient experience for the end users.

Mentor

Carl Schwan

Merge Request

• Merge Request for testing Status.
• Merge Request for testing Search
• Merge Request for fixing the broken search UI in tokodon-offline
• Merge Request for making tokodon-offline executable.

Blog Posts

• Mid-journey Blog Post for Sok'23
• Second Blog Post for Sok'23

Timeline

Week 1 and Week 2

The first couple of weeks went on in researching how I would start tokodon without network connectivity, it was achieved by creating a new entry point named main-offline.cpp with the account initialised as the object of MockAccount class following which I created an executable named tokodon-offline by making relevant changes in src/CMakeLists.txt. The merge request for the implementation can be found here.

Week 3 and Week 4

The following two weeks were spent on writing appium test for search functionality. For this, I first had to make the search functional in tokodon-offline, for achieving this I studied the already unit-tests for search and found out the code made mock API calls and received the search results through a search-result.json file so I followed the same approach and made the same mock API calls after which I was successful in making the search functional. The merge request for this can be found here

Week 5 and Week 6

In these weeks I, with the help of the maintainers of Tokodon, fixed the breaking pipelines of tokodon-offline and wrote another appium test for testing different types of timeline statuses and also published my 1st blog post.