One of the biggest challenges of beta testing is that there are no established standard processes. The main reason for this lack of standard procedure is that optimal beta testing processes tend to vary wildly with differing scenarios. At Instabug, we have helped hundreds of companies shape their beta testing programs. Today we will take…
We have been working for quite some time on collaborating with the best partners out there to help companies build better apps. We’re proud to announce that Instabug is officially collaborating with Beta Family to help companies find and engage with more than 80,000 testers from all over the world and provide them with an…
Although the term only started to appear around the 1980s, “dogfooding” has rapidly risen to “best practice” status. Its adoption and praise of dogfooding by small teams to tech giants like Google and Amazon prove that it is more than a buzzword. Finding external testers that are responsive and deliver quality feedback is an industry-wide challenge…
Taking care of goal setting, coordination, and collecting and acting on user feedback, a beta test manager is what stands between a successful beta test and a waste of time and resources. Beta tests are full-blown projects in their own right and they deserve to be treated as such. A common mistake companies make is to…
A well-conducted beta test takes a great deal of planning and effort to ensure that you receive valuable feedback and insights and, often, small mistakes or oversights can make the difference between a resounding success and a big flop. When planning for a beta test, a common mistake made by app developers is not considering the…
Many beta testers and end users don’t know how to write a bug report that includes the details a developer needs to know in order to fix it. If you’re a developer trying to sort out the reports you receive, you know there is more to reporting a bug than simply announcing that the app…
Bug reports are crucial for developers to find out where their code goes wrong or behaves in unexpected ways, but getting your testers to submit clear, informative, and actionable reports can certainly be a challenge. Whether you are beta testing your app or on a production release, standardizing and streamlining this process for your testers…
If you’re serious about your app’s success, then integrating an in-app user feedback tool to collect bug reports and communicate with your beta testers is a no-brainer. The beta testing stage can either be the worst and messiest part of finally shipping your project, or you can automate and optimize it. After all, you didn’t…
As a software quality control engineer with four years of experience, software testing is my passion. I love finding bugs — whether functional, technical, UI, usability, performance, or security — and discussing them with developers. I’ve completed many freelance testing jobs as well as participated as a tester for multiple global and local beta…
We started Instabug to empower developers to ship better mobile apps. Today, with betatesters.io , we’re one step closer to that goal. We’ve been working on this mobile app beta testing marketplace for the past couple of months and we’re super excited to finally share it with everyone! At Instabug, we’re helping thousands of companies…
When you’re developing an app and you have limited time and resources, the beta testing phase is usually a tough one. You want your app to be as perfect as possible and executed in the most efficient way to release it as fast as possible. Beta testing is usually a tricky part of the development…
Getting beta testers to provide quality feedback is a notorious challenge in mobile app development. Only one out of every five testers you get will actually give feedback, and the biggest problem reported about beta testing is not getting enough actionable feedback. With beta testers, you’re dealing with a community of professional technical testers and…