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Welcome to
Challenging Products Developed in Bulgaria: Poker and Slot Games
Presenters:
Alexander Dimitrov
Nikolai Nenov
What and who are Playtech
• The world’s leading gaming software supplier
• Listed in London Stock (AIM) since 03/2006
• Over 1,200 employees in 6 branches around the globe
Playtech offices
Ipswitch,
London UK
Douglas,
Isle of Man
Tallinn, Estonia
Sofia,
Bulgaria
Tartu,
Estonia
Tel Aviv,
Israel
What are we doing
• Development of online games software
• Supporting hardware platform and services
• Development and supporting services for land-based game terminals
(Videobet)
• Business model: renting the software solutions and services for the
operators
Playtech products
Selection of licensees and brands
Poker product – the movie
Poker – the game
• Card Game

Skill

Luck
• Popularity

Easy to learn

Very attractive

Wide media coverage
Poker – the product (1/3)
•
User experience & game-play
•
New requirements & improvements
•
Research & Development
•
Validation and testing
•
Configuration of the system
•
Customization per client
•
Release of the final product
Poker – the product (2/3)
• Client

DL version (C++)

Flash version
Poker – the product (3/3)
• Backend web (PHP)
• Servers (Java)
Development cycle of a Playtech product (1/2)
Development cycle of a Playtech product (2/2)
BRD
Functional
Specification
Technical
Design
Architect
Product Manager
Analyst
R&D Manager
QA
Java dev PHP dev
Estimations
Project Manager
Project team
Company structure
COO
Product
Management
Production
Manager
Delivery
manager
R&D
Manager
Project
Managers
Java
Team
PHP
Team
C++
Team
QA Manager
Product
Operations
Analysts,
Architects
Flash
Team
Manual
QA Team
Automation
QA Team
Production
Leads
Production
Team
Poker: C++ team
• Peculiarities

STL (Standard Template Library)

QT Graphical library

Multithreading

Debugging tools – Intel Parallel Studio

GMM script for integration of the visual part
Poker: Flash team
• Peculiarities

Based on ActionScript 3
Poker: PHP team
• Peculiarities:

Backend application, run on Apache

Zend Framework

Oracle
Poker: Java team
• Peculiarities:

Native Java

Oracle 10.G -> 11.A

Azul – hardware platform
Poker: Manual QA team
• ISTQB license
• Boundary Value Analysis – testing technique
• Work process – Test Planning -> Test Design -> Test Execution
• Tools

Quality Center – Test management system

JIRA – Bug tracking system
Poker: Automation QA team
• Peculiarities

Functional testing – custom tool for running scripts, based on C#

Performance testing – Java based custom tool (bots)

Supporting Manual QA in their working process
Poker: Product Operations
•
General purpose – 3rd level support & Product Enhancement
•
Team – Server & Backend application specialists
•
Peculiarities

Release Management – delivery of QA tested and signed off product or
component.

Change Management (networking)
•
Spark/Solaris -> x86 Virtualization
Poker: Production team
•
Peculiarities


Team members
•
Designers (Illustrator, PhotoShop)
•
Slicers
•
GMM developers
•
Flash
•
QA
Internal tools mostly
Poker: personal careers
•
Inside the teams
 Up in hierarchy
•
Between the teams
 Poker <-> Casino

•
Poker <-> Mobile
Between country departments
 Bulgaria <-> Estonia

Israel <-> Bulgaria
Casino
• Delivery every month
 Planning

Development
• Distributed development
 Two road maps
Casino delivery unit
• Teams
 Java

Flash

QA
• Other Roles
Good luck!