Late October, the Catalyze Tech Coalition released the Action to Catalyze Tech (ACT) report, which outlined best practices, accountability measures, and systemic changes needed to support workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech industry.

Testlio’s vision is imagining software experiences that energize the world. It’s a big vision and a big reason why companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, SAP, and ViacomCBS work with Testlio. This vision signals a responsibility that goes beyond delivering best-in-class testing services, bringing together a global network of expert testers, and building a platform that enables a new way of testing.

Testlio is a globally distributed company with over 150 TestLions working from more than 20 countries around the world 🌍. While many companies had to quickly transition to a remote model in 2020, at Testlio it has always worked this way — we’ve been distributed by design ever since we started back in 2013. So, what is it like working in a distributed-by-design culture?

Whether you’re building web or mobile apps, quality assurance is a non-stop cycle of corrections, updates, and improvements. And, QA takes time. But with crowd testing, you can quickly identify software issues, fix them, and release them with confidence. Some call it crowdsourced or crowd testing. Testlio calls it networked testing. It’s an efficient way to utilize a crowd of testers to ensure complete coverage.

In the face of increased demand and competition, software development teams are expected to iterate faster each project sprint. Iterating faster creates a market advantage because it means you can adjust quickly to evolving market conditions, changing end-user sentiment, and an unforeseeable black swan (like a global pandemic). However, increased software delivery speed cannot come at the expense of a high-quality end-user experience.

Payments testing mimics each step of the payment process to verify that connections, transactions, and paths for communications are working. The best payments testing strategies include a thorough range of tests, from functional to performance to location. Need a place to start? Follow this checklist when developing a payment gateway testing strategy. A good strategy should detail exactly what information is needed, common flags for problems, and the markers of a successful payment gateway.

Without payments gateway testing, you risk cart abandonment, over or under-payments, penalties, and increased customer support costs. These risks occur when web or mobile app payment transactions run into issues. To avoid these issues, online retailers should create test cases, conduct periodic checks, and update their processes to ensure the system’s integrity. From functional testing to usability testing, there are many ways to test payment processing.

Mobile app testing can be time-consuming, error-prone, and sometimes expensive if not done the right way. But mobile app testing is a critical part of the development process, so skipping it comes at a huge cost to end UX. To compete with the millions of mobile apps on the market, your set of best practices must ensure that the user experience is incredible for every consumer every time they use your app, starting from the first try. Not sure where to begin?

After the closure of the influential Epic v. Apple trial, a California judge has ordered Apple to immediately remove its anti-steering rules, which barred app developers from offering payment methods outside of Apple’s in-app purchasing system.