timeNough MVP: Testing Part 1/8 – The Time Logger bot
Channel: Nough
Date: 2022-04-03

During the first part of this first tutorial, you will learn how to follow the Whitelisting process and arrive at the preferences form. Starting point will be John Doeson’s email message dedicated to this topic. You will have to enter the email address of your choice in a particular field, and confirm a link you will receive in a confirmation message. In the end, you will be able to access a form that lets you configure settings about the timeNough MVP and the bots, but it will require credentials for extra security. In this part, you’ll also learn about the additional data that is used in the Time Logger bot’s algorithm: your estimates of reading speed and typing speed based on testing done with a recommended tool.

Part two is a demonstration of how to interact with this first bot by using John Doeson’s mailbox features and acting as if you are him. You will learn how to compose and send an email to the bot’s email address. The whitelisting will allow you to replicate all of this directly from your own mailbox interface, because it’s more convenient. The tutorial insists that the Time Logger is acting as a witness. It should be clear by the end of the guide that it is all about making a silent program aware of something manually…

You’ll have to manually involve the program, which becomes worrisome after a while. Due to this, we begin talking in minute 11:44 about automation, and how to communicate with software hidden behind an email address, first, from your own email account, and second, automatically by using email forwarding. It explains how to configure email forwarding when your email is managed by Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo mail or the Apple mail application. 

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1. Video's article
https://www.timenough.com/blog/experimental-statements/timenough-mvp-testing-part-1-8-the-time-logger-bot

2. Documentation of the tests in a one-hour article:
https://bit.ly/3JOmD5n

3. The excel file for effectively run and perform the tests, a file protected by an NDA (via DocSend) that has to be signed before downloading:
https://bit.ly/36s2Nyq

4. John Doeson's demo mailbox:
https://bit.ly/3DmYa4I

5. Lara Bowen's demo mailbox so that the two can exchange emails from the two interfaces:
https://bit.ly/3JLhPxo

6. An overview of the bot system behind our prototype:
https://bit.ly/3HgzVWh

7. The process of authorizing (whitelisting) a personal email address since only John Doeson and Lara Bowen can be direct testers:
https://bit.ly/3usGjVX

8. Preferences from, once authorized, you need to replace the email address in the URL with your own:
https://bit.ly/3IK1lV8