Beyond the current applications, computer vision tools are rapidly becoming commodified for lower-profile uses. Totvs Labs, a software vendor based in Mountain View, Calif., has started using computer vision recognition in its product testing, especially its cloud-based software, which needs to be frequently updated and therefore continuously tested. Typically, a senior quality assurance engineer would run a test by writing a script that puts the application through its paces, and each test case would take hours to create, said Vicente Goetten, the lab's executive director. If an application changed significantly because the framework and its underlying code needed updating, for example, thousands and thousands of test cases might have to be written, he explained. With the help of computer vision recognition, engineers can look at a website, desktop application or mobile app, rather than the underlying code, and see where they need to enter data or press buttons.