Jennifer Moebius

Long lines, screaming kids, rude employees, rip-off prices, poor selections – all things of holiday’s past. That’s because virtually every major retailer has now set up shop online. But just because holiday shopping can be done from the comfort of one’s own living room, doesn’t mean there aren’t complications (i.e. bugs). To prove our point, we’ve decided to make E-tailers the subject of this quarter’s uTest Bug Battle. Here they are, in no particular order: Amazon.com Walmart.com Target.com The competition – which kicked off at midnight – will give testers one week to search these sites for the most compelling bugs, and to report them through our online platform. And as usual, we’ll be dishing out more than $3,000 in prize money based on: Top overall tester (based on t... (more)

Testing the Limits with Jack Margo SVP of Developer Shed, (part 2)

Today, we’re wrapping up with our September ‘Testing the Limits’ with Jack Margo, SVP of Internet Operations at Developer Shed.  If you’re not familiar with them, Developer Shed operates 20+ tech sites — many devoted to open source products, developers and communities.  They serve millions of visitors per month, for every breed of developer or open source project. Today, we talk about the... (more)

Safari Bug Actually Costs You Money

Mobile bugs are becoming a bigger and bigger problem, and iPhone users are the latest to be affected by buggy software.  Techcrunch reported yesterday that a bug in Safari causes it to consume bandwidth even when it’s closed.  The problem arises with the use of Motion JPEG (or M-JPEG), a video standard that is built off of the JPEG images standard.  When an iPhone user visits a page with... (more)

Crowdsourcing: Testing the Limits with John Winsor

Having grilled some of the top minds in the software business, this installment of Testing the Limits will deviate slightly from the norm. With us this month is John Winsor – author, entrepreneur and crowdsourcing expert. After a successful career as a journalist and magazine publisher, John founded Radar Communications in 1998, where he implemented a variety of academic-based market in... (more)

Last Call: One Day Left in Search Engine Bug Battle

With roughly 24 hours left in the 3rd quarter Bug Battle, here is a brief summary of the results thus far. We’ve had more than 500 bugs reported, with more than 30 of them relating to the mid-competition addition of Google Caffeine to the Bug Battle mix. Remember, the software testing competition ends Friday, August 14th at 11:59pm ET and there’s more than $3,000 in prize money at stake. ... (more)