Enhancements to Test IO’s platform available now to customers include:

• Release Readiness: Test IO now benchmarks customers' quality levels against their own products over time, ensuring that changes to code don't result in a decline in end-users’ experience of product quality.
• Rapid Testing: Test IO customers can now initiate a test and receive results in as soon as an hour, so a developer working on a feature can get functional validation over lunch or teams can push on green, knowing that no obvious functional problems have slipped through.
• Test Invocation API: Test IO customers can now use a REST API to invoke tests automatically at critical points in their delivery pipeline, such as when code is pushed to a staging server or even to production.

People are uniquely qualified to discover critical issues that automated tests miss and to assess a product’s overall fit-and-finish, but manual testing can be a bottleneck in a rapid release process. Test IO’s combination of speed and tester insight solves those problems.

“Many people assume that organizations like Facebook and Google don’t have people testing their software, but that’s not true,” said Philip Soffer, Test IO’s CEO. “They’re just large enough that they can push that testing off on their employees and customers and still get results quickly. We’ve enhanced our product and optimized our processes to deliver human insight about software quality to companies large and small without the traditional manual testing bottleneck.

While traditional crowdtesting approaches emphasize the number of bugs discovered as a key performance indicator, this way of thinking is insufficient for organizations that deploy frequently and expect few release-blocking bugs. Test IO’s Release Readiness holistically benchmarks your product’s builds over time, providing a traceable KPI to ensure that new code meets your high-quality standards for user experience.