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!

✨ New Features ✨  

Video and screen recording (no jumpscares please!)

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!

📈  Improvements 📈 

Trick-or-treat! We've got new Test Planning features!

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.

Add intent to your features!

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!

Nuanced control over conditional features!

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.

💡 Centercode GoEarly features 💡 

Something wicked this way comes!

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!