Crowdsourced Mobile Application Testing
In the course of researching mobile web application prototyping and testing, I came across Mob4Hire, a new service that aims to help mobile application developer with reliable testers through crowdsourcing. I went ahead and signed up. I look forward to testing out my first mobile application and checking out Mob4Hire at the same time.
With the sheer number of devices, operating systems, browsers, carriers, and geographies that may need to be tested, it can be really difficult to test against all the scenarios.
Crowdsourcing may be just the solution to this problem. Of course, the reliability of the testers probably cannot be guaranteed to be as good as, say, your in-house QA. I imagine that this service would mostly be useful to ensure that everything ‘looked’ ok in various devices leaving the functional, unit, and regression testing to the development teams.