Day 8 – Debugging and Data Collection
(beta version)

·    Debugged and improved the control flow
(survey ProcessBuilder, pingResult… etc.)

o   Fixed “if else” function displaying semi-colon

o   Added safer handling for latency extraction by checking whether “ms” was successfully found (extracting the number)

·       Verified the latency parser

o  Located time=

o  Extracted Latency text

o  Identified numerical value

o   Converting “[String]” à double

·       Tested program with multiple real DNS servers to verify successful connections

·       Kept detailed debugging output in terminal (eg. Time= …) to verify source code is running properly

·       Edited a few comments to be accurate/up to date

·       Began real world analysis and data collection (very important for future)

·       Refined the project’s architecture and
long-term direction: desktop application as the actual tool + website as the project’s documentation, research, data, and presentation layer

o   Further down the road when I begin developing the GUI/user interface

o   Reasoning for choosing desktop app as tool: websites would only run ping analysis from my computer, not from user’s computer