For my last podcast I will be doing a podcast from Joe Colantonio. This week he talks with Noemi Ferrera who is a computer Scientist passionate about technology and testing. She has worked in popular companies like IBM, DELL and microsoft and most recently she is working in China for Netease Games. The tool that Noemi is working on right now is called AirTest. AirTest is a solution for automating applications and games. It is an IDE that allows you to use visual testing or tools that use the DOM or object model abstractions which can be used to create your automation correctly. AirTest works on a number of systems including Windows, coco, unity etc. It is open source and partnered with google. The next thing Noemi brings up how she does VR testing. Her approach is that many of the steps would be similar to any application in general, including tools. Other steps might be a little different and it is important to take into account steps and tools that are specifically need for virtual reality testing. She also mentions some of the problems that programmers and testers forget to take into account like the amount of space or how close VR users are. There are certain safety precautions that need to be handled amd better taken care of. One of them being VR motion sickness. This is caused because your eyes are seeing the movement but your body is not feeling it. So you are physically not moving but your eyes are seeing it. She also talks about things that she has been able to add to VR. For example she has added VR capabilities for card board for google. The big difference between VR and any other application is that in VR you have objects that may be behind you. In order for you to see the object and to de certain actions you need to move the camera which is kind of an issue. She was able to rotate the camera on demand either to an object and instead of clicking on the object, you can click on the screen which in hand clicks on the object. This also allows you to check things like location and position and to verify information. Overall for my last blog I found it very interesting. What I really liked what how she mentioned actual problems that she has seen gamers deal with in VR. She is taking into consideration those problems and finding solutions as a tester to fix them. I also found it interesting how much she talked about VR since it is such big upcoming technology that will only get bigger. VR is a very important area to know about and might even be something that I will be working on in my job.
