Exploratory Bug Testing
The immense amount of differing devices and operating systems in today’s marketplace is overwhelming. A high standard of quality and flawless usability are essential to a company’s success. Take your testing into the real world with our crowd as they explore your applications using their own devices and help you avoid compatibility issues!
Exploratory Bug Testing – Your advantages
A crowd of over 300,000 registered testers with over 500,000 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
In exploratory bug testing, your software is tested with user stories and predefined tasks while still allowing testers to maintain the freedom to complete each step in their own way. Every detail of the testing procedure is documented by the crowd, giving you a concrete idea on how your application or website behaves on a variety of devices. This process of testing outside of laboratory environments helps discover the bugs that lead to the most common errors encountered after a product’s release. Our crowd features over 500,000 devices with a never-ending combination of operating systems and software. Our exploratory tests provide you with invaluable functionality feedback concerning your product from the point of view of your end user. With exploratory crowdtesting, operational blindness is a thing of the past.
How it 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.
Your Exploratory Bugtest
Functional errors – Have your application tested with an exploratory bug test based on typical use cases and tasks. The crowd identifies bugs that cause most of the problems while using their own device.
Self-Service
Manage your tests yourself - anytime, anywhereTest design: You
Selection of target group: You
Available criteria for target group selection: 14
Limitation of criteria for target group selection: 4
Communication with testers: You
Evaluation of results: You
Self-Service Plus
Manage your tests yourself - we help with the setupTest design: Testbirds
Selection of target group: Testbirds
Available criteria for target group selection: 65
Limitation of criteria for target group selection: unlimited
Communication with testers: You
Evaluation of results: You
Managed Service
Our all-round carefree package - we manage everythingTestdesign: Testbirds
Selection of target group: Testbirds
Available criteria for target group selection: 65
Limitation of criteria for target group selection: unlimited
Communication with testers: Testbirds
Evaluation of results: Testbirds
* The basis of the Testbirds pricing model is its own currency – the BirdCoins. Once purchased, you can use it flexibly for our more than 20 different Testbirds services in Quality Assurance, Usability and UX and Testbirds Exclusives across our various service levels. Minimum tester setup references to the smallest setup possible – normally we recommend integrating more testers in a setup to increase significance and the amount of data that is generated
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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