Quality assurance testing for smart TV applications is not the sexiest area of the video industry, but Faultline can never resist a company that is excelling against the competition when it comes to a no-nonsense service. Czech vendor Suitest provides a cloud-based, automated testing solution for smart TV applications that appears wonderfully straightforward. The company’s unique selling position is that its tests are object-based, which means that it inspects the individual elements of an application, rather than image-based testing, which is unable to dissect elements and their functionalities beyond single images. “We can pick up on invisible things like cookies, URLs, or the buffering time experienced by a video player,” Mirko Nedeljkovic, Suitest CEO, told us at IBC 2022. Image-based…