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 Tartu, Estonia Tallinn, Estonia Tel Aviv, Israel Tel Aviv, Israel Sofia, Bulgaria Sofia, Bulgaria Ipswitch, London UK Douglas, Isle of Man Douglas, Isle of Man

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)

COO Product Management Delivery manager R&D Manager Project Managers Java Team PHP Team C++ Team Product Operations Analysts, Architects Flash Team QA Manager Manual QA Team Automation QA Team Production Manager Production Leads Production Team Company structure

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 – 3 rd 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!