Q.
What is your favourite commercially-
available tool that you discovered or made use of this year?
Adam Rush (Keywords Studios): There is nothing better in my opinion than a well built JIRA dashboard with a proper workflow. While there are many tools that are available, JIRA is the one that rings true for me.
Erik Hittenhausen (Testronic): Nothing really springs to mind in terms of anything we’ve discovered in the past year or so. But I find it interesting to watch the development in Cloud- based solutions, particularly those where you can test a broad set of mobile devices via the Cloud without having to have them all in one location or having to handle them physically. That technology has picked up a lot of momentum – for games it’s not quite there yet, but I imagine this will evolve very quickly.
Povilas Svetova (Nordcurrent): This year’s biggest discovery ties with an open-source tool – which we’re delighted to have stumbled upon – OpenCV framework. It has huge applicability to video game automatization, and we keep integrating it deeper into our work. Other favourites include Google Vision AI and ML- based model ‘keras-ocr’ for text recognition. From commercially available tools that are ‘ready to use,’ we discovered Browserstack, which allows us to check our projects with real devices through its cloud service.
Steph McStea (Double Eleven): I know I am shamefully late to the party, but I recently finally gave Trello a try after years of hearing people talk about it. I’m someone who likes to make checklists and draw happy faces next to completed tasks. Finding out that Trello not only allows me to add little pictures but also colours was a wonderful addition to my workflow. As well as marking things complete and getting a satisfying block of green with a happy face on top, I can also mark when something is WIP, which saves the terror of stopping mid-task and getting lost when I come back to my desk.
Neil Soane (Quantic Lab): Because of the relationship we have with our tools providers we cannot get into detail about which ones we use, however, that said, we are seeing an increased interest from our clients for visibility and transparency of our processes. We are actively looking at giving our customers ways to see, in real time, the status of their projects via active process management tools with external and internal tracking. This would be an end-to-end process that involves our clients from as early as possible and gives them the ability to see and interact with their project. We want to remove the concept of a passive process to a fully immersive pipeline with touch points throughout. Some tools will allow us to achieve this, and we are actively working with those companies to understand how we can be involved.
“There is nothing better in my opinion than a well built JIRA dashboard with a
proper workflow.” Adam Rush,
QA partnership manager at Keywords Studios 44 | MCV/DEVELOP February 2023
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