Do you think it was good

[Nate Smith]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

...whether or not FIRST had it adequately tested before season.

Testing is something that was definitely done..."adequately" might be able to be argued, but...I propose the following(speaking partially from experience here)...

• Extensive testing was performed prior to even the release to the beta teams (example: I was at FIRST HQ at the end of September, and was able to see a working bot on the new system, as well as pick up their "testing" WLAN on a laptop.
• The beta teams helped to refine the code and test for functionality on actual "competition" machines
• The unknown came in when introducing the FRP flooring - the resulting static charges generated could not be anticipated by testing,
• The driver stations were also left in a "set up and go" state during testing - the frequent disconnects and resulting ethernet port failure was not experienced under this environment.
• The relatively last-minute change to include the WPA encryption caused problems in getting everyone up to speed as well.

I think as an interesting comparison, I would like to have a full 6-bot field of machines playing this game, but running on the IFI controllers, without any of the static protection measures implemented later in the season, and see how well they fared.