(The following is based upon the company's March 2017 announcement.) Test IO, a leader in crowdsourced software testing, in March 2017 launched platform-wide enhancements specifically for agile development organizations that have embraced continuous delivery. The enhancements enable customers to verify their apps’ readiness for release -- with human testers on real devices -- in as quickly as an hour. Crowdtests can now be triggered using an API as part of a continuous delivery pipeline, providing an unprecedented combination of speed and confidence to the software release process.

Continuous delivery is the process by which software development teams produce incremental improvements in short cycles, ultimately releasing code to production reliably at any time. Companies like Box, Etsy, and Hubspot can famously push code daily or more often, creating a competitive advantage. However, as organizations of all sizes move to implement Continuous Delivery processes, customers’ experience of product quality can suffer, even with high levels of test automation. By providing immediate human insight about a product’s release readiness, Test IO helps customers such as Thumbtack, Europcar, and Thomas Cook remove risk from the software delivery process while delivering updates in record time.

While software teams have long embraced production metrics that track product quality over time, pre-production indicators have proven a harder challenge. Human feedback, in particular, has been difficult for most organizations to obtain quickly and scale predictably. Test IO now solves that problem.