While meeting with the Surface team yesterday, I got an inside look at how the team stress tests their applications using automation tools and robotics. Testing a multi-touch system presents a lot of challenges, especially simulating lots of fingers interacting with the system at one time.
Robin Lim and Ritchie Hughes, Software Dev Engineers in Test on the Surface team, demo a few of those things for us in this video:
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