Double, double toil and trouble! Spoooky season is upon us once again, and Centercode has a bubbling cauldron of new features and improvements to serve up in October's release (and don't worry we left out the toil and trouble). It's all treats and no tricks here with a brand new set of first-class video and screen recording tools! And that's not all, we dusted the cobwebs off of (before re-adding them for decorative purposes) our test planning interface and added a load of new functionality and information you're sure to find a treat. Bite a little harder into test planning and you'll find a nougaty center of new feature creation options! And, lurking just out of sight, we have some truly frightening(ly useful!) GoEarly features waiting for those brave enough to seek them out. Click here to sign up now!
First up, we've got an amazing new first-class suite of media tools that will redefine how you can interact and engage with your testers. These new tools enable you to natively record and share video or screen recordings with your testers in any resource (features, content, and releases). Now you can give precise, in-depth instructions or product descriptions to your testers without ever leaving the Centercode interface.
Once you've recorded these videos, Centercode now includes a powerful suite of video editing and review tools to enrich the functionality of your recorded videos, including automatic video transcription, and built-in video annotation options!
Hope you brought the BIG plastic pumpkin bucket, we've got a lot of Test Planning treats for you! We've revamped the Test Planning page to guide you from importing a test plan to finalizing your phases and features in advance, to approve and publish them when you're ready. Additionally, the new "Quick modify" feature allows you to make changes to aspects of features, such as feature names, descriptions, instructions, and value straight from the Test Planning page. We’ve also added helpful new infoboxes to keep you informed about the status of your test and highlight any items that need your attention.
We're excited to introduce a major overhaul of the feature creation process. The new, intuitive splash page simplifies feature creation, and a brand-new feature intent selection section guides you through defining the purpose of your activity and testing process. After selecting your intended feature intent, the platform will automatically populate the appropriate fields, including some helpful infoboxes to give you an idea of the sort of instructions you could provide to optimize testers’ engagement with your activities. These intents also include three options that are directly tied to the new media tools, allowing you to collect video interviews, screen recordings, or live experiences via webcams or mobile phone cameras from your testers, all from within the platform!
We've also included several user-requested features, such as the option to make feature availability conditional on the completion of other features (to make sure your users complete features in a certain order) and following activity completion with bespoke custom surveys!
This also includes more detailed post-activity feedback collection options, such as the ability to collect star ratings independent of the full FSAT system, as well as the ability to tie a custom survey directly to an activity.
This month's GoEarly release introduces something we here at Centercode have all been excited about for a very long time: Our first super rad AI feature (of many to come)! We don't want to say too much before you're able to get your hands on it, but trust me folks, you don't want to miss this one. In addition, we've got a few other exciting features we're continuing to improve! Want to learn more? Sign up now!
It's September, and Fall is (or soon will be) upon us! That means cooler weather, falling leaves, and the smell of warm apple pie on the breeze (or more likely out of a scented candle for those of us too lazy to bake). And boy, does Centercode have some delicious new features crisping up in the oven! But all good things require patience, and they're not quite ready to be served yet. Given how big of a deal GoEarly is this month, we’ve included a candid note from Centercode CEO, Luke Freiler down below!
Not participating in our GoEarly program? Click here to sign up now, and get your hands on these features as soon as possible!
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Hi all,
Our new preview release is being handled a bit differently than usual, as we're focusing on not only new features and enhancements, but also a brand new Centercode product, which we're not quite ready to announce publicly just yet.
If you're a member of our GoEarly community you will have received an email with further details, inviting you to participate as usual. If you're not, but are curious - feel free to sign up here, and we'd be happy to add you to the test team!
Thanks,
Luke Freiler
CEO @ Centercode
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The engagement bot (Ted by default) leverages multiple means of engagement to ensure you and your testers are well aware of what's happening in your tests. This month, we've added the ability to turn off SMS messaging from the bot. It's uncommon for the bot to resort to texting — typically only in "emergencies" — but this option will make sure that Ted sticks to email correspondence.
This week's patch fixes a highly impactful issue that we discovered this week. Please take a moment to consider how this issue may have affected your program's filters. Projects cloned from custom templates between June and September may be affected, so please review any automation based on user or feedback filters in projects created during this window, or contact help@centercode.com for support.
The sun is beating down, things are heating up, and here at Centercode, we thought a set of cool enhancements might be just the breath of fresh air you need! The August release contains a new feature designed to help you get your project off of the ground, as well as a few pesky bugs zapped!
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Protecting your project privacy is important (almost as important as protecting your skin!), and this brand new feature coming out of our GoEarly program adds an extra layer of protection to your program. We've added a combo of warning banners and infoboxes to let you know if you don't have a project-level NDA set up in your notice process in any project marked as private.
A new button will take the place of your "Invite to project" button, letting you know that you're missing an NDA for your participant teams. Clicking it will take you right where you need to go to get one set up! Warning infoboxes will also show up anywhere you might add testers, such as the Invite to project interface, recruiting pages (shown below), and invite type pages. Not setting up an NDA for your project (or already have one configured at the community level), or simply don't need the reminder? No problem! Dismissing the button in the menu will return it to the "Invite to project" button, and you'll never see these warnings again in that project.
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