“Xray is used in-house at Abstraction to manage all test cases for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and Stadia. Gone are the days of trying to manage technical requirements in an excel sheet. One of the best investments we've made for testing and I'm happy I got this added to improve our test case management processes.”
-Mark Pittam, QA Lead at Abstraction
Abstraction is a leading game development studio that has delivered over 200+ products across 60 games over the last 13 years. They have more than 80 employees based all around the world and are renowned for taking on technically challenging projects for some well-known customers including Funcom.
The studio works with some of the biggest names in the industry including PS4 & PS5, Xbox One|X, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia, PC, and Apple.
“With Google Sheets and Excel, we could not share decent results with the clients, internally or with management, about how well a product had been tested.”
-Mark Pittam, QA Lead at Abstraction
Prior to Xray, the studio used Google Sheets and Excel to manage all of their testing, including functional and technical tests. This was an unreliable system that left their team overwhelmed with information, lacked any traceability, and most of all proper reporting. For them, using Excel and Google Sheets was a low-cost solution and they had easy access to it.
However, with Excel and Google, they faced many challenges including:
Abstraction needed a powerful test management tool that would centralize their testing, organize their multiple projects and tests, and provide them with powerful reporting so they can easily communicate the results of testing to key stakeholders.
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“Xray allows us to give managers and producers quicker at-glance reporting, to know how many tests are failed and passing. Now we’re able to show the client the current state of the product and compare the testing against the platform holders’ own internal QA teams.”
-Mark Pittam, QA Lead at Abstraction
Abstraction needed a new tool to help them organize their complex testing and optimize their test management. They had a strict selection process and they wanted a tool that had the ability to:
Xray matched all of their requirements and provided them with a powerful test management solution that would meet their growing needs.
“With Xray, it’s more efficient for us to do testing certification. The new process allows us to react much quicker, we can create the defects directly from bugs, give the feedback to developers, and turn things around much quicker.”
-Mark Pittam, QA Lead at Abstraction
Since adopting Xray, Abstraction has learned to rely on the tool for a smooth and efficient test management process. Some of their favorite and most used features include:
“The ease of use is very important to us. We want people to come in from any skill sets, producers, managers, QA, designers, and quickly get up to speed. Using the Xray Academy we are able to quickly onboard new team members.”
-Mark Pittam, QA Lead at Abstraction
Abstraction has found clear benefits that went above and beyond their expectations.
3 main takeaways from Xray are:
4 benefits of Xray for Abstraction are:
Want to see this success case as a webinar? We recently had a webinar with Mark Pittam from Abstraction who shared how and why they’ve been using Xray for test management.
You can watch the complete presentation and a valuable Q&A section where Mark answered many questions that you might be curious about too.