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)
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)
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)
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)
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)