A New Way to Test Software?
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by Dave Garrett
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Situation: You Are Involved in QA/Software Testing...
Do you have software that needs testing? 
OR
Want to make some extra cash testing software?
I had to bring this one up as it seems to be a new approach to an age-old problem. There's never enough money, time, or skilled people to test software. So you give up and eventually users of the first release become your alpha users. uTest has an interesting new crowdsourcing approach to the problem that I think holds some promise. They are creating a pool of remote testers online and paying them to find bugs. You can be a tester or have others test your software.
On the positive side, one would think that you would have a motivated pool of testers out there that will pound out the obvious/typical flaws. That's a hugely positive thing. However, what you won't have is typical users that will take role-specific approaches to interacting with the system.
Posted on: February 10, 2008 11:10 AM |
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Thanks Dave for your posting... Interesting... Role-specific testing may also be done by people at utest, if the companies can provide the functional process flow for various known scenarios. But still, you may need someone from the business side, the actual users of the system, to test the system before it is being used in production. By all means, this seems like a new business domain... I''m looking forward to it....
Erick Cruz
Programming Manager| Concentrix
Pasig, Philippines
Cool! This is a good link for possible alternate source of income :-) But on a more practical level, doing it this way might involve some soft of paradigm shift for companies needing software testers. It will surely involve a bit of investigation if the model fits a company's processes (if they have one, that is!). But I will definitely investigate this further. Thanks for the link!
Dave McMillin
Sr. Project Manager| TEKsystems
Washington, Il, United States
Sounds like a great idea. If I can get my software tested by people all over the world who may not be familiar with the role of my target user but have used other software I am bound to ship with less problems then one tested only by someone with the mindset of the person the software was designed for. And then I only pay if they find a legitimate bug, not if they spend hours banging away trying to make a buck. Let's see: put a hundred monkeys in front of a hundred PCs running the software and ... profit!
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