The announcement of Google’s new engine “Caffeine” could not have come
at a better time. In light of the current Bug Battle competition, we have
decided to add Caffeine to the lineup of search engines to test.
The competition is roughly halfway through (testing ends on Friday, August
14th at 11:59pm) with a running total of 310 bugs submitted thus far. To be
fair to testers who have already submitted bugs, we are now increasing the
bug limit per tester from 10 to 15.
Be sure to include Caffeine in your testing. Good luck…and happy bug
hunting!
P.S. – There’s still time to sign up for our latest Bug Battle, so if
you’re interested in the chance to win cash for testing Bing, Yahoo! and
the Google engines, start here!
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In the past, we’ve brought you the Browser Brouhaha (Q408), a Social
Networking Skirmish (Q109) and Twitter App Apocolypse (Q209). Well it’s
that time again, so we’re going to be kicking off our Q3 Bug Battle later
this week. For this quarter’s competition, we’ve chosen to turn our
testing community loose on the most popular search engines:
Google, Bing and Yahoo!
The Q3 Bug Battle will begin on Friday, August 7th and end on Friday, the
14th.
We’ll be awarding more than $3,000 in prize money to the top testers, based
on:
Top overall tester (based on the quality of bugs ... (more)
Have you heard of Grand Central Dispatch? If you’re a Mac addict, then
you might know that it’s Apple’s new easy-to-use tool for parallelizing
code. If you’re not a Mac addict, then the first thing you should know is
that GCD is one of the most exciting innovations in software development in
years. The second thing is that Apple just released it as a cross-platform
open source project, meaning it’s coming soon to a platform near you.
Within the past several years, hardware developers have started expanding the
power of computers by adding more CPUs instead of making individual ... (more)
Earlier this week, uTest blew past the 20,000 tester mark in our humble
“little” community. As we’ve all witnessed on the Tester Forums, the
uTest community continues to grow – not only in sheer size, diversity and
coverage – but also in the level of testing skill, engagement and
collaboration.
In light of this big news, we wanted to share some other community milestones
from 2009:
Tester Forums: launched in May, our new testers-only forums are engaging
software testers from all over the world with varying testing and industry
experience (more than 1,200 members participating ... (more)
Do you own a Sidekick mobile phone (AKA the Danger Hiptop)? Then please
accept my condolences while I describe the pain and suffering you’ve
experienced over the past few days.
The Sidekick is made by Danger, a company acquired by Microsoft in 2008. As
one of T-Mobile’s flagship mobile phones, the Sidekick was one of the first
and most popular consumer smartphones. Featuring a real keyboard, it
offered an instant messaging application at a time when many phones were
still figuring out SMS. For IM and SMS addicts, the Sidekick was THE phone
to own.
One of the Sidekick’s key ... (more)
Jennifer Moebius, Public Relations Manager at uTest, champions media efforts, analyst relations and speaking/awards programs. A media maven and creative writer, Jennifer’s accomplishments include feature articles in BusinessWeek, Fortune, Dow Jones, The New York Times and Investor’s Business Daily. Prior to uTest, Jennifer was Senior Account Executive at boutique PR firm Emerge Public Relations where she managed PR programs for a variety of tech clients including Burton Group, Information Builders, Action Engine, Tizor Systems, good2gether and Harvard Business Publishing.
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