#crowdsourced

[interact-if]

Is it okay to ask if any interactive fiction writer is looking for a writing buddy? :,)

I can ask! :)

[yourfavelovesbearsintrees]

Hobie Brown from Spider-Man: Across The Spiderverse loves Bears In Trees

[vaishnavireportprime]

Crowdsourced Testing Market: Trends, Benefits, and Future Growth Opportunities

The Crowdsourced Testing Market, also known as crowdtesting, is rapidly becoming a preferred method for software quality assurance (QA). Leveraging a distributed group of testers, often from diverse geographic and demographic backgrounds, this approach ensures real-world testing conditions that traditional in-house teams might not replicate.

What is Crowdsourced Testing?

Crowdsourced testing involves outsourcing the QA process to a large pool of testers through an online platform. These testers identify bugs, usability issues, and functional flaws across various devices, operating systems, and networks. Companies opt for this method to ensure their digital products—such as websites, mobile apps, and software—perform well in real-world environments before going live.

Crowdsourced Testing Market Overview

The global crowdsourced testing market is growing at a rapid pace, with projections estimating it to reach USD 2.85 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 9.6% from 2021 to 2026. Key factors driving this growth include the increasing complexity of digital products, the rising need for fast and cost-effective testing solutions, and the rapid adoption of remote work.

Key Market Drivers of Crowdsourced Testing

Growing Demand for Agile and DevOps: As companies increasingly adopt Agile and DevOps methodologies, the need for continuous testing has surged. Crowdsourced testing enables quick feedback loops, aligning well with fast-paced development cycles.

Diverse Testing Environment: One of the biggest advantages of crowdsourced testing is the ability to test across multiple devices, browsers, and regions. This ensures broader coverage than traditional in-house testing, especially for mobile and web-based applications.

Cost Efficiency: Crowdsourced testing eliminates the need to maintain large, in-house testing teams or purchase numerous devices and software for testing. Companies pay only for the services they need, leading to significant cost savings.

Global Access to Talent: By tapping into a global pool of testers, companies can ensure 24/7 testing, with access to a diverse set of skills and real-world user behaviors. This is especially valuable for global products that need testing across multiple regions.

Market Segments of Crowdsourced Testing

By Testing Type:

Functional Testing: Ensures that all features and functionalities work as expected, and that there are no bugs hindering the software's performance.

Usability Testing: Focuses on user experience, identifying how intuitive and user-friendly the product is for real-world users.

Localization Testing: Ensures that digital products are correctly adapted for different languages, cultures, and regulatory requirements.

Security Testing: Aims to find vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the software's security to prevent data breaches or cyber-attacks.

By Platform:

Web Application Testing: Crowdsourced testing is frequently used to ensure that websites and web applications perform flawlessly across different browsers, operating systems, and devices.

Mobile Application Testing: With the ever-growing number of mobile devices, crowdtesting has become vital for ensuring that mobile apps are compatible with a wide range of smartphones and tablets.

Game Testing: This niche market within crowdtesting is particularly useful for video game developers to identify bugs, performance issues, and usability problems across platforms.

By Industry:

E-commerce: Retailers rely on crowdsourced testing to ensure smooth user experiences, secure transactions, and compatibility across devices.

Healthcare: Medical software and applications require extensive testing to meet regulatory standards and ensure patient safety.

Finance: Financial institutions use crowdsourced testing to safeguard against vulnerabilities in apps handling sensitive customer data.

Gaming and Entertainment: This industry benefits from crowdsourced testing to ensure optimal performance and user engagement across diverse devices and regions.

Benefits of Crowdsourced Testing

1. Real-World Testing Scenarios

Crowdsourced testing provides access to real-world testing environments, where testers use their personal devices in everyday settings. This leads to better detection of issues that might not arise in controlled lab conditions.

2. Faster Time-to-Market

With access to a large pool of testers, crowdsourced testing allows for quicker feedback and faster bug resolution. This accelerates the testing process and helps companies meet tight deadlines.

3. Scalability

Companies can scale their testing efforts based on the needs of their project. Whether they need a small group of testers or thousands, crowdsourced testing platforms can accommodate these varying requirements.

4. Improved Test Coverage

Crowdsourced testing offers broader test coverage, as it leverages testers from different geographical locations, networks, and devices, thus covering more real-world scenarios than in-house testing.

Key Challenges in the Crowdsourced Testing Market

Despite its advantages, crowdsourced testing comes with some challenges:

Quality Control: Ensuring consistent quality and reliability in testing results can be difficult with a distributed team of testers.

Confidentiality and Security: Sharing access to pre-release products with external testers requires stringent security measures to protect intellectual property and data.

Managing Communication: Working with large groups of external testers can sometimes lead to miscommunication or a lack of coordination in the testing process.

Future Trends and Opportunities

As companies continue to shift towards digital-first strategies, the demand for crowdsourced testing is expected to grow. Key future trends in this market include:

AI-Powered Testing: Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are expected to enhance crowdsourced testing by improving bug detection and automating repetitive testing tasks.

Increased Use of Remote Collaboration Tools: With remote work becoming the norm, crowdsourced testing platforms are integrating advanced collaboration tools to streamline communication between testers and developers.

Expansion in Emerging Markets: As the adoption of digital technologies grows in emerging markets, so does the demand for localized testing, creating opportunities for crowdtesting services.

Conclusion

The crowdsourced testing market is on a strong growth trajectory, driven by the increasing complexity of digital products, the rise of Agile and DevOps methodologies, and the global need for cost-effective, scalable testing solutions. As businesses strive to deliver flawless user experiences in a competitive digital landscape, crowdsourced testing will continue to play a pivotal role in ensuring software quality and performance.

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[nho-jungle]

wow i can't believe jay ferin is fat, hairy, transgender, has curly hair, AND has pcos.

[beatsandskies]

Beyond "Beyond The Box": Readers' comments on Theme Decks.

Jay of Ertai’s Lament fame also wrote articles for a couple different sites in addition to the blog. I’ve started mining these for my “Compendium” posts, and to make things easier I’ve fired everything into a google docs file and grouped them by set. I then had the thought that it was probably worth just making a couple of dedicated posts about them. They’ll all trickle out eventually as I go…

[kamsspice]

an underrated part of this beef is that metro boomin, the man who produced the across the spiderverse soundtrack and the Like That song that kickstarted this whole thing, and a producing legend in the hip hop community, made a beat called BBL drizzy and said anyone who can make a good rap to it gets the best for free.

i’ve never heard of a producer setting the mob during a beef. he’s got regular people making raps against drake. that’s actually insane to me.

[thecapitolradar]

U.S. faces ‘unprecedented’ border surge as immigration deal stalls in D.C.

A few things:

Immigration is not de facto asylum-seeking;

If resources for our citizens are strained to the breaking point, no amount of wishing will change the situation;

Humanitarian aid is a viable option in certain circumstances;

Climate justice is a primary means of humanitarian aid;

It's amazing how Republicans insist on climate justice for themselves, but will only pay for weapons when it comes to everyone else;

If we can't feed, clothe, and house these people, we must turn them away;

We must sharply increase criminal penalties for smugglers;

Mexico is still okay with having the National Guard at the border;

Apparently, placing the National Guard at the border is not ugly enough, gratuitous enough, vicious enough, or expensive enough for Donald Trump;

Apparently, performative Catholicism is just about enough for President Biden;

Stop this nonsense.

[newstodayjournal]

Queering the Map Is a Crowdsourced Archive of Queer Memories

Name an L.G.B.T.Q. landmark. Perhaps it’s the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Manhattan. Maybe it’s Castro Camera, Harvey Milk’s shop in San Francisco, or even the Coral Sea Islands, where activists started their own micronation to advocate the legalization of gay marriage in Australia. All three places appear on Queering the Map, a digital atlas that invites L.G.B.T.Q. people to tag any…

[reasonsforhope]

Happy Holidays to everyone celebrating holidays right now!!

Let's spread some holiday cheer and crowdsource this shit!

Link a good news story that you know in the notes on this post!

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Here's mine, I'm cheating by providing a giant compilation that is by FAR the best good news roundup I've seen this year.

-via Fix the News, December 19, 2024

And for those of your who have already seen that from my other post, here's another great compilation!

-via Positive.News, December 23, 2024

[fluent-in-lesbianism]

The wlw community is so fucking funny like Friendly Rivalry's only been out 4 weeks but it's already ranked the 8th most popular South Korean show on Kisskh (and actually jumped two spots overnight) beating out popular mainstream kshows like All of Us Are Dead, A Business Proposal, and Squid Games.

I've used that website for years and never seen a show, mainstream or otherwise, jump that far in popularity so fast in such a short amount of time which just further supports what we've all been saying for years which is, if a company wants their show to reach a wider audience, they don't need a huge marketing budget, they just need to add wlw characters to their series and let us do the marketing for them.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Are you disabled and do you like visiting zoos? If yes, I want your feedback!

I am giving a presentation this fall on small/easy things that zoos and aquariums can do to be more disability friendly (above and beyond simply being ADA compliant). I’m drawing from my own experiences as well as all the information contributed to the accessibility spreadsheet.

I realized that there’s probably a lot of feedback and great ideas I’m missing because the spreadsheet asks for specifics about facilities, and folk might not remember where something occurred or know enough details to feel like they should contribute. I want to fix that!

So, if you’ve had accessibility issues at zoos and aquariums, and want to share your thoughts on the problems or the solutions, I’d love to hear it. I want as much information as possible to inform this presentation.

Please feel free to comment here or message me! No facility location / dates needed (but if you want to include that, I can add your thoughts to the spreadsheet too).

[lordgrimwing]

Other people have been sharing their beautiful fiber arts projects and I love love them. Deciding to share my current (and foreseeable) WIP.

Perhaps a lack luster picture, but here is my ode to the line of Luthien.

[lowspoonsfood]

I'm a college student working several jobs & taking a class for summer. My cousin got me a slow cooker but aside from rice idk what to do with it. Recipes online require buying so many little things and I can't make it seem worth it. This is my first time grocery shopping on my own and I'm overwhelmed with how much it costs/is taking even when I just eat the same 2 foods (eggs for breakfast, burger for lunch and dinner) and easy microwave stuff over and over. The closest grocery store is also limited in ingredients. Easy slowcooker recipes that don't require me dropping a bunch of money would be so helpful <3

followers, any ideas for anon?

i would say there might be some variety or things you haven't tried yet if you check out the microwave tag and there is a small slow cooker selection as well. i know groceries are super hard right now and inflation is affecting everyone. i do want to say that it is always okay to go to your local food bank to supplement your pantry/fridge if you're struggling (yes, you are struggling enough if you have to ask am i struggling enough) - everyone deserves to eat! also, a lot of places have seasonal summer free produce programs right now. try googling (your county/town) free produce.