A feature added to the Gator Tracking App, allows you to test if notifications are working correctly on your phone, by sending a test one from the server.
How it works: Basically, the server finds your first object, and generates a fake event for the purposes of notifying you about it. This isn't stored in the event history or anywhere else other than the notification on your phone, so no worries.
A test is unique to the device itself, if you have multiple phones all signed in, only the one you initiate the test on will receive the test message.