Consumer Electronics Are Now App Driven. So, Who’s Handling the QA?

Consumer electronics have become part and parcel of our lives. Projected to reach a market value of $415,897 million in 2021, consumer electronic businesses are constantly innovating by leveraging emerging technologies, like smartphones, to find a differentiator that gains them a competitive edge in a highly competitive market to create an increase in customer satisfaction and retention.

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Clay Simmons
Clayton Simmons has 10+ years in Enterprise Services Business. Clayton ran Cognizant’s Digital Assurance Practice in 2012 and lead an organization focused solely on testing digital enterprise digital solutions for both Mobile and IoT. He successfully rolled out Customer Experience (CX) Test offering which revolutionized the approach to the perceived quality quotient against traditional functional validation of so many other testing services at that time.

Why Crowdsourcing Your Mobile Testing is a Bad Idea

Find/Discover Quality Bugs that meet your test objectives from a dedicated team

Crowdsourcing offers some advantages to ensure that an application is ready for launch. The speed and flexibility to ramp up a team of testers is really remarkable, but there are some issues that can arise if you do not have a concrete test plan created.  A professional test team is trained to assimilate seamlessly into a development or QA team affording it the opportunity to maintain a constant dialogue when there are ambiguity in the testing tasks with a crowdsource partner your primary motivation is compensation by the number of bugs found. Not all bugs are created equally though. A dedicated test team that has been working with your application through several iterations will know your product and be able to find more impactful bugs. If a bug is tricky to reproduce as well, it might night be worth the tester’s time to track down the issue if there is a higher chance that issue would be invalidated.

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Tony Luu
Tony Luu has more than eight years of experience in QA and Software Life Cycle Development. Tony is currently a Senior Project Lead at LogiGear Corporation, and has lead project development for several clients, most notably including Linkedin, Cisco and LeapFrog. Tony received a Bachelor of Applied Science in lectrical and Electronics Engineering from Purdue University.

Making Mobile Testing Manageable

Mobile applications are growing in use and sophistication along with the speed of the networks and the power of the devices they run on. The multiplicity of devices and operating systems alone make for a very challenging testing matrix.

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LogiGear
LogiGear Corporation provides global solutions for software testing, and offers public and corporate software testing training programs worldwide through LogiGear University. LogiGear is a leader in the integration of test automation, offshore resources and US project management for fast, cost-effective results. Since 1994, LogiGear has worked with Fortune 500 companies to early-stage start-ups in, creating unique solutions to meet their clients’ needs. With facilities in the US and Viet Nam, LogiGear helps companies double their test coverage and improve software quality while reducing testing time and cutting costs.