Philipp Benkler, CEO and Founder, Testbirds
Philipp Benkler, CEO and Founder, Testbirds
Philipp Benkler, CEO and Founder, Testbirds
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Crowdtesting – Testing in Real-World Conditions
Philipp Benkler, CEO and Founder, Testbirds
With the motto ‘Testing Reality – Real Users. Real Devices. Real Impact.’, the Munich-based company Testbirds offers different types of tests to optimise the usability and functionality of digital products. Testbirds counts on a network of professional testers and real end-users to provide their collective expertise.
Testbirds is a young, successful company: in 2011, the three founders and today’s managers, Philipp Benkler, Georg Hansbauer, and Markus Steinhauser, came together to help companies enhance their digital products. From the very beginning, the company trusted the power of the crowd and combined crowdsourcing – the internet community’s swarm intelligence – with software tests. The ‘crowdtesting’ approach has convinced clients and investors alike with its reliability. Today, Testbirds has grown to more than 100 employees and, next to its main office in Munich, now has branches in Amsterdam, London and Stockholm.
Certified experts and real end-users – an unbeatable test combination
The main focus lies on quality assurance and the usability of digital products – whether they are apps, websites, or Internet-of-Things applications (IoT). Crowdtesting relies on unbiased real users, who are chosen according to target and user groups. This way, companies get feedback from those they actually want to reach and do not have to rely on laboratory experiments alone. Using their own devices, test-users search for bugs and usability problems, and companies get detailed descriptions of problems, as well as clear recommendations for actions.
While the first testers originated from the DACH-region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland), today, the test community includes more than 400,000 registered users in 193 countries. That makes Testbirds one of the world’s leading crowdtesting companies. Thanks to crowdtesting, more than 900,000 different devices are available for tests – from desktop computers to mobile or IoT devices. This wide range of different operating systems and browsers ensures that companies gain a comprehensive picture of functionalities and user-friendliness. It doesn’t matter whether this involves apps, wearables, classic software or an intelligent hoover: all data collected can be utilised.
Demographic criteria to match your users
Within the crowd of testers, Testbirds can filter out specific types of users with specific demographic and behavioural characteristics. So, for example, if you want to test your app with Spanish-speaking Android users in Sweden who exercise twice a week, the Testbirds crowd is available and ready. Through the power of their crowd, Testbirds will help you improve your digital product during any stage of development and make it the best that it can be, proven in real-world conditions and with a quick turn-around.
Always be one step ahead – Testbirds helps you deliver digital products people love
Article written by Tobias Brunner, Head of Marketing Communications, Testbirds