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Ask HN: Does the Following Service Exist
I think I have seen someone post about this on HN before, so if you know the website, please let me know.
I want a group of random people with random browser and OS specs to use my website and report bugs. Is there a service like this, where you get standard reports with technical specs of the users and qualitative feedback as well?
- kolya3 17y agoYou can crowdsource QA through uTest.com
- andrewljohnson 17y agoDo you have any idea how much this costs? It's completely opaque on their website.
- Travis 17y agoI've seen people discuss on HN how they've used Amazon MechTurk to do this as well. I believe their conclusion was that they weren't particularly happy with it. Realistically, if you're looking for tech compatibility, you may need to do it yourself. It's not as bad as it seems, but you do have to test 3-6 browsers/OS combos. If you've used good stuff like jQuery, etc., lots of the browser differences can be made minimal. Also, you're probably not going to get particularly phenomenal feedback from just any user. Try doing the testing in person, with just a few people (Jakob Nielsen has a post about how many people you need, and concludes something like 3 people will give you the majority of what you need to focus on. After all, you want to focus on the big issues, and as a startup you're likely to have tight resources available...)
- sharpn 17y agoIf you just want to test static pages in different browsers, you can use this site for free - it's what I used to test my site (there are probably others): http://browsershots.org/ http://browsershots.org/