By Kristien De Wachter & Tommy Marquez

First of all, we want to start with thanking every tester that is volunteering to perfect the very first steps of our newborn app. Lots of people were eager to start playing with the app, but only a few were selected based on their types of devices. That small group consists of people from Brazil, Poland, US and Canada but is growing on a daily basis as we continue to roll out more scenarios. They tell us they can’t wait to test the next set of features.

We give our releases nicknames, the first one is called ‘Terminal’.

Terminal went into testing January 4th. It has the very fundamental features to start Swarm City’s p2p ecosystem. Testing scenarios were:

Create a new vault (identity and wallet), with avatar stored on ipfs

Change the picture and the username

Import a token sale wallet

Import an external wallet by private key

Watch the token balance

Backup the vault

By doing these scenario’s over and over again, some bugs and issues were found and registered in order for the dev team to fix them.

But maybe the most interesting feature we tested was how a decentralized swarm experienced a blockchain based piece of software and reported on it. We also wanted to find out if our testing process works.

The testing group gave us great feedback, not only on the app we’re building, but also on how we can organize and how we approach testing. It also generated a lot of new FAQs.

These are the bugs found, which have been fixed already:

Not able to rotate the image (avatar upload)

Better indication of the “ image scaling” feature

When cropping the image, fill screen, so it is easier on a mobile device to manipulate

Center username to avatar picture

Make the private key you paste from external wallet visible, instead of dots

Reported issues we’re still working on:

App not loading on firefox

Downloading the json file for backup doesn’t work on safari

Next version:

In the meantime, we also have been working on the next features of Terminal. These will be included in new version (expected) January 11th:

Fixlist

The new Swarm City style

A new release (expected January 12th) will enable:

Token exchange, giving the possibility to exchange ARC tokens for SWT tokens

Coming weeks:

The following functionalities are on our roadmap for the coming weeks, they will be released in batches, asking testers to execute scenario’s to find bugs or problems for each feature.

Upload your vault backup file

Syncing devices

Sending and receiving tokens

Setting a preference reference currency (SWT/USD, SWT/EUR)

We will be reporting on our testing here with every new release.

Anyone who would like to join our beta tester group can join by signing up:

betatesting.swarm.city