Posted on August 12th, 2009 in
Product Updates,
uTest by Stanton Champion
Late last night, we launched version 2.5 of the uTest platform. This new version incorporates a number of infrastructure improvements and 
bug fixes. And while some of these things aren’t visible to the naked eye, they are based upon feedback from our customers and testers, and we’re confident they’ll help to improve the overall user experience here at uTest.
Among the more noticeable changes, we’ve improved our support for Google Chrome. This is among the fastest-growing browsers among our user base, so our platform now supports it. We’ve also made it easier for new testers and customers to find the answers to their questions with improved FAQs inside the platform.
We’ve also given our project managers several new “behind the scenes” tools and features to help them respond even more effectively to the needs of our customers and testers, as well as to deal with the ever-growing number of releases.
As always, our community deserves a tremendous credit for helping us find and fix a number of bugs as well as for providing us with great feedback. Have a breakthrough idea for our future product releases? Join our testing forums and check out our Platform Feedback section.
Posted on June 19th, 2009 in
Product Updates,
uTest by Stanton Champion
Tonight we released the version 2.3 of the uTest platform. There are a lot of fixes and features in this release, but we’re most excited about two new features:
Discussion Threads
Starting today, testing managers have a new tool for working with the uTest community. With discussion threads, it’s now possible to quickly and easily create a virtual meeting room so they can communicate with their testers and the uTest project manager.
Testers who are working on a project can “meet” in real-time, ask & answer questions and share information with each other about that particular release. And customers have a great new way to share critical information or requirements while a release is underway.
Discussion threads will enable testing managers to better manage and interact with their virtual testing teams and ultimately create even higher quality apps.
(Click to see a larger screenshot.)
Application Profiling
Another great feature we’re introducing is a tool to help testing managers better match their applications to testers expertise through refined application profiling. When creating a new release, testing managers will have the ability to classify their application and testing needs. Our system will use then use this information to automatically identify testers who are more likely to match the release’s exact testing needs.
The drop-down menus will allow testing managers to select:
- Application Type – Web, Desktop, Mobile
- Testing Type – Functional, Usability, or Load & Performance
- Industry Type – Social Networking, Retail, Entertainment/Gaming, Financial Services, etc.
- Audience – Consumer, Business, or Both
This matching process is just the beginning, and coming soon we will release several additional features for both testers and testing managers. In the coming month, we will be requiring uTesters to update their profiles for even stronger project matching.
In addition to these new features, this release applied fixes to more than 40 bugs (all found by our uTester community).
The word is out! With the launch of our revamped website, a new “Meet the Testers” application and Tester Forums, last week uTest made significant strides in turning our crowd of 16,000+ QA professionals into an interactive community.
Here’s what the media had to say:
Jeff Howe, author of best-selling book Crowdsourcing & contributing editor at Wired Magazine, twittered the news to his 2,000 followers calling us out as a Company to Watch.
Other notable posts at StickyMinds.com, the Cloud Architect, and MSNBC.com.
Let us know what you think about the new site!
