Vendor
From TestArmy
Testing in today's environment
These days, it's a tough gig getting robust, reliable software released that can be expected to work on every platform out there. Acquiring every platform that your software might run on, in many instances, is not an option. And the time and effort involved in running tests on all these platforms is often prohibitive. In particular, these broad areas of development cause intense headaches for testers:
- Mobile Application Testing - there are literally thousands of handsets out there, all with differing capabilities. There's little standardisation, and when you throw into the mix the variety of environments, carriers, countries and security settings, a tester's nightmare is born.
- Web Application Testing - every web application developer knows there is no such thing as a standard web platform. Lovely as it would be, every browser is different, and not only are there differences across browsers, but also across browser versions. That's a lot of testing to keep your customers coming back to your web site. Remember that most visitors on encountering a problem will never contact you, but instead go to your nearest competitor. It's an unfortunate fact of life.
- Windows Application Testing - Windows has come a long way over the years. So much that there are now four versions of Vista to deal with, along with Windows XP and the variety of service packs. Don't forget Windows 2000, and you could easily be excluding a large group of potential customers, without even knowing.
TestArmy offers an opportunity to outsource your testing requirements with crowdsourcing. There is often a manual component to testing which is repetitive and time consuming. Increase your software's market penetration and reliability, without the typical cost.
Getting Started
Below are the main tasks required of a vendor to get tests up and running for users to test.
- Sign-up - add yourself as a user to the system, ensuring you mark yourself as a vendor.
- Update balance - you need a positive balance to pay testers.
- Add new products - add details about the product you'd like to run tests against.
- Add new tests - add the steps required for a user to complete a test.
- Activate tests - publish tests for users to find
- Review test results - see how testers fared and pay them for their efforts.
