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Technographics: Your Shortcut to Improving Interoperability

With consumers adopting more and more smart tech, the everyday spaces of your customers has become an interoperability minefield. The key to navigating that minefield without a performance blowup? Tapping into an aspect of growing importance within the realm of beta testing: technographics. Today we’re talking technographics — what they are, why they matter, who […]

Ask the Expert: Should I Add More Testers?

Test Planning

Is more testers always the best solution when you’re experiencing a dip in feedback? In this Ask the Expert series, Centercode’s Chris Rader weighs in on large tester teams: when they work, when they don’t, and how to manage when your stakeholders want to keep adding testers. Got a question you’d like to see on […]

Need a Template? Here’s Your User Acceptance Testing Checklist

Test Planning

If you want to run a solid user acceptance test, you need a solid plan — but since you’re reading this, you probably knew that already. With so much at stake, planning ain’t easy; there are schedules to build, people to recruit, stakeholders to work with, feedback to sort. We created this user acceptance testing […]

Delivering Picture-Perfect Experiences in the Year of Streaming

Test Planning

2020 has been aptly dubbed the “Year of Streaming.” Movie premieres, live concerts, conventions, and other normally in-person gatherings are joining the vast popularity of streaming media and games made possible by streaming services all over the world. Coronavirus solidified an already shifting focus toward entertainment and events that consumers can enjoy from home. But […]

Connecting Customers to Office Tech in the WFH Era

Test Planning

In May 2020, Twitter defied the uncertainty of the then-nascent COVID-19 pandemic with a decisive announcement: they were making work-from-home permanent. It was a plan two years in the making, but one that foreshadowed a global trend. Now, work from home (WFH) is the norm for many companies — and it is permanently shaping the […]

Building a Foundation for Smarter Home Automation

Test Planning

Today’s homes may still be a far cry from the Jetson’s — but rapid advances in technology mean they’re smarter than ever. Products are getting more sophisticated, and as home automation spreads to wider audiences, product makers are running into both new opportunities and challenges in equal measure. Consumer desire to make the home more […]