Software Testing Blog

Last night, our development team unleashed version 2.7 of the uTest platform.  This release includes some great enhancements – many of which were based on requests from our customers.  We’re especially excited about a few features in particular:

Enhanced Mobile Releases
Mobile app testing has always been something we’re proud of, but as the number of mobile testers and customers has grown, we’ve outgrown our normal release structure.  With so many mobile phones, carriers, and operating systems around the world, mobile customers have asked us to make it even easier to choose between them for new releases.

Now customers will experience an improved workflow for mobile releases.  We help you select just the right specifications for your testing – meaning you get just the right testers you need for your project.  So whether you’re looking for Blackberry testers in Britain or Android testers in Argentina, we make it easy to get started testing.

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Niftier NDA Support
While we have long supported non-disclosure agreements between testers and customers, the process has been more cumbersome than we would have liked.  Starting today, customers can upload a non-disclosure agreement to which testers must read and agree before starting a release.  This will greatly simplify the process of using NDAs on releases and make it possible for customers with IP sensitivities to get going even faster.

Customer Notes
Many of our customers have been asking for a way to add their own notations to a bug report separate from the tester’s feedback.  Sometimes testing managers want to share information back and forth within their team, track the progress for bug verification, or capture quick thinking on bug followup.  Customer Notes are private and only visible to Testing Managers and uTest Project Managers.  Individual testers will never see them.

Customer notes are located on the right column of individual bug reports.

Other Fixes and Enhancements
We also made a number of other improvements including beefing up features like .CSV exporting, streamlining some of our back-end project management, and tuning up our platform’s performance to handle larger and larger traffic loads.

Our tester community, as always, offered some great ideas and helped us find and fix a number of bugs.  Have a great idea for our future product releases?  Join our testing forums and check out our Platform Feedback section.