Skypegear Interview: Skype's Pontus Randén on Certification
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Andrew Brennan on September 12, 2007 in Interviews, Skype Certified.
If you're a regular reader of this blog you'll be well aware of my affinity for Skype Certified products. It's for good reason: after the engineers at Skype put a product or piece of software through its paces, you're pretty much guaranteed to have a great Skype experience when you use it.
But what does this 'putting a product through its paces' entail? The certification process is a whole lot more than just slapping a logo on a box. You can learn a lot about what goes on, including specific checks made for different product types, in the Skype Developer Zone, but to be honest some of the information there is a bit dry--it's meant for the people who actually develop the products.
With nearly 200 products now Skype Certified, I wanted to learn more about how the certification process actually works, so I asked Pontus Randén, a Skype engineer in Estonia, a few questions and he was kind enough to provide answers.
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