Much of the last 6 months has again been consumed with work on Spades, this time not just improving the AI but also providing an innovative speech bubble system for the AI players. Your opponent and partners will now make comments during play, adding to the personalisation of the app. The articles in this edition reflect the added work spent on the Spades AI though, concentrating on the complex topic of managing testing. This is a vital topic and a key difference between success and failure.
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Article: Adding New Muscle to Our AI Testing: We have beefed up our test framework to accelerate our development work.
Article: Unwelcome Testing Realities: There are few free lunches in testing and here we expose some unwelcome truths.
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