Exploratory Bug Testing
Take your functional testing into the real world with Exploratory Bug Testing. Our crowd testers will explore your applications, hunt down all bugs, malfunctions & compatibility issues with their own devices.
Exploratory Bug Testing – Your advantages
A crowd of over 400,000 registered testers with over 900,000 devices
Support with the test design and the evaluation of test results
Custom test design – Together with you, we define the method of reporting bugs
Ad-hoc availability of our crowd
Live tracking and export bug lists using JIRA, Redmine and CSV capabilities
Bug-Approval – an optional service that lets you test all the bugs that have been found
Take the quality of your applications to the next level!
The challenge: How can I ensure the functionality of my software on all the different devices in the market?
Continuously testing software on all of the latest devices, operating systems and browser versions requires an enormous amount of resources. Despite a strict time schedule, performing flexible yet extensive tests and identifying errors that have been missed during the internal quality assurance process is crucial. However, access to a group of testers with all the devices necessary, who are able to perform a test under real world conditions, is bound to amount in high costs and take a lot of time.
The solution: The crowd tests your software on their own devices
With our crowdtesting service Exploratory Bug Testing your software is tested along side user stories and predefined tasks. Still allowing our crowd testers to maintain the freedom to complete each step in their own way.
This process of functional testing in the real world helps discover the bugs that lead to the most common errors as well as special bugs that might not be covered by user stories. Every detail of the testing process is documented by our crowd and forwarded to your development team and their bugtracking solution (e.g. JIRA).
With our QA Testing add-ons Re-Test & Bug Approval you can integrate our crowd easily into your regression testing and continuous optimization processes.
Our crowd features over 900,000 devices with a never-ending combination of operating systems and software versions. All this devices are accessible via our testing platform NEST, so device fragmentation or limits of an internal device farm is a thing of the past.
Exploratory Bug tests provide you with invaluable functionality feedback concerning your digital product from the point of view of your end user. With exploratory crowdtesting, operational blindness is a thing of the past. Bring your software development now to the next level by outsourcing your quality asssurance to the crowd.
How Exploratory Bugtesting looks in practice
The appstore rating of one of your applications is much worse in the Google Play store than in the Apple Store due to a number of bad reviews about bugs. We start a test using a tester group of 25 Android users from our crowd, each operating Android 4.0 to 6.0 devices. After only a few days, the final test report yields 59 bugs. They can all be reproduced on our platform, or “Nest”, with the help of Virtual Machines. Most of them are easily fixed, such as faulty hyperlinks or images, but there are also seven severe bugs that lead to the application crashing. By fixing those errors, the app is successfully optimized for Android devices, raising the Google Play store rating.
Full flexibility for smaller teams and SMBs
Self Service
€ 1100
/one-off
(equals 50 BC*)
Selection Tester: Client
Test Design: Client
Selection criteria testers: 14
Criteria available per test: 4
Test setup and tester management: Client
Test Evaluation and Analysis: Client
Access to Self Service Portal
Payment: Creditcard + Paypal
Invoicing: Standard
Premium service & support for Enterprise clients
Managed Service
€ 2200
/one-off
(equals 100 BC*)
Selection Tester: Testbirds
Test Design: Testbirds
Selection criteria testers: 65 / on demand
Criteria available per test: unlimited
Test setup and tester management: Testbirds
Test Evaluation and Analysis: Testbirds
Access to Self Service Portal
Full Premium Support (Telephone & Onsite)
Payment: Invoice
Invoicing: Customized to your needs
Dedicated Account & Customer Success Manager
Dedicated Senior QA/UX Consultant
Customized test results with bug reporting
*The basis of Testbirds’ pricing model is its own currency, BirdCoins, which form a flexible subscription model that allows for full QA and UX test coverage. Once purchased, you can invest in over 20 different crowdtesting solutions across a variety of service levels, such as purely using our platform to a fully managed testing process with a dedicated, expert project manager. The minimum tester setup of 10 testers references the lowest amount possible, normally we recommend integrating more testers to increase the significance and amount of data that is generated. 40 testers is a representative example for pricing purposes, but absolutely not an upper limit. The recommended number of testers heavily depends upon the requirements of your digital products. If you need further assistance, simply get in touch with us.
Dennis
Solution Consultant QA & UX
Do you have questions about Exploratory Bugtesting? Would you like to have more information on how we can help you make your digital products even better? Just send us a message, one of our Solution Consultants will be happy to get in touch with you.
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