Robots that run your tests

Kapptivate runs your tests on real hardware. Some robots drive a browser, some drive phones over USB, and some carry live SIM cards. These pages take one from the day you rack it to the morning it stops answering, the phones it drives included.

A robot doesn't always sit in your building. Yours may run in your own racks, at Kapptivate, or as a virtual machine with no box to touch. What follows assumes you host it yourself, on the latest generation of hardware, though maintenance and troubleshooting hold for older robots too.

Installation

Install a robot

Rack, power, and cable a new robot, whatever its type

Configure the robot network

Every robot needs a static IP before the platform shows it Online

Smartphones

Prepare an Android smartphone

The Samsung settings that keep a phone awake and reachable over USB

Prepare an iPhone

Trust the robot, then let support finish the pairing

Maintenance

Swap a SIM

The number you type decides: a swap that carries the old card's settings and monitors over, or a fresh SIM

Replace the motherboard battery

When the clock drifts or the BIOS resets

Change the IP of an older robot

When a robot with no desktop has to move to a new address on your network

Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot an Offline robot

What to read before you go, then the reboot and the cables

Check the robot's network connection

From a terminal on the robot, find out what blocks it on your network

SIM cards troubleshooting

Spot a bad SIM from its status, or from USSD, SMS, and call errors that keep coming back

What's next?

Agents

Agents is where the platform lists your robots: devices, monitors, reboots, and maintenance

Equipment statuses

Every status in one place: robot, device, SIM registration, signal, and usage