Results from the Battle of the (Social) Network Stars
After a great deal of scrutiny and some lively internal debates, we’re excited to announce the results of our latest Bug Battle!
A quick recap: Over the course of a week, 1,119 testers from 64 countries competed to find bugs in the three leading social networking platforms: Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. In all, our testing community found a total of 718 bugs, with 84 of those deemed as “showstopper” issues (i.e. bugs warranting immediate action).
Here’s a breakdown of the final numbers from the Bug Battle report (PDF):
Facebook: 416 uTesters found 243 bugs (.58 bugs/tester), including 14.40% that were deemed showstoppers by the tester
LinkedIn: 399 uTesters found 250 bugs (.63 bugs/tester), including 9.78% that were deemed showstoppers by the tester.
MySpace: 304 uTesters found 225 bugs (.74 bugs/tester), including 10.80% that were deemed showstoppers by the tester
Here are the key findings from our Bug Battle survey:
Testers’ choice for best overall quality:
1.LinkedIn (45%)
2.Facebook (37%)
3.MySpace (17%)
Testers’ choice for best usability:
1.Facebook (39%)
2.LinkedIn (38%)
3.MySpace (17%)
Testers’ choice for best feature set:
1.Facebook (46%)
2.LinkedIn (36%)
3.MySpace (18%)
Once again, congratulations to the Bug Battle winners, and thanks to the uTest community for your participation and enthusiasm. Your software testing prowess always impresses us and we can’t wait to see what bugs you uncover next. Speaking of which…
We’ve got a few ideas for our 2nd quarter Bug Battle, but we’d love to hear your suggestions. To get the ball rolling, here are a few ideas we’ve been kicking around:
• Instant messenger tools
• Web mail programs
• Top Facebook apps
• Top iPhone apps
So do the 3 sites also regard those 84 ‘showstopper’ bugs as showstoppers and are they going to fix them immediately ?
Phil,
We’ve reached out to two out of the three sites (still trying to get connected to someone in QA/engineering @ MySpace) and are offering them a scrubbed, de-duped version of the list, upon request.
The ‘showstopper’ label is defined as “warranting immediate attention”. This was specified by the reporting tester, so I’m sure that there would be a different standard applied by a QA manager or engineering lead who looked at this list.
Matt