Software Testing Blog

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.

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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).