Instrumenting PlayStation 4/5 apps¶

Suitest does not support patch packages. In order to test your application, you need to upload a fully standalone application package.

Suitest launches an application with external parameters. In the case your application calls getExternalParameter command and uses data, please make sure that Suitest parameters will not break your application.

PlayStation platform works in a way that only a single listener for accessfunction can be configured. Since Suitest instrumentation library needs such a listener, there is a potential conflict between the instrumentation library and the code of your application. Therefore, we strongly recommend using the following pattern to prevent potential race conditions with accessfunction:

var previousAccessFunction = window.accessfunction;
window.accessfunction = function handler(val) {
    var msg = JSON.parse(val);
    // do some handler logic...

    // optionally unregister itself if this handler should be called only once and correct message was received
    if (window.accessfunction === handler) {
        window.accessfunction = previousAccessFunction;
    } else {
        console.log('Unexpected accessfunction handler set, can not safely restore previous one');
    }

    // call previous handler - mandatory logic
    previousAccessFunction && previousAccessFunction(val);
}

NOTE: This pattern can be used multiple times in the application codebase and is fully compatible with the instrumentation library.

Here is an example of a listener incompatible with the instrumentation library:

// INCORRECT - do not use this pattern
window.accessfunction = function(val) {
    var mgs = JSON.parse(val);
    // some handler logic
}

NOTE: Both code samples are simplified to demostrate the logic and are not in the production quality.