While humans are ever-adapting, the recent pandemic has forced a complete revamp of how we work and play. As in-person meetings and conventions remain sparse, networking in other ways has become a new normal. Mobile app developers are applying key lessons and trends of online networking and socializing to capitalize on increasing global demand for virtual connectivity.

The device landscape is as vast as it is complex. With at least 63,000 possible device profiles reported—a number growing at almost 20% per year—the scale of device fragmentation is staggering. New models, operating systems, browsers, screen resolutions, etc., make it extremely difficult for web and app developers to deliver a consistently flawless user experience across all combinations.

Your test management platform allows you to create test cases and assign them to testers. It makes it easy to analyze your results. But it doesn’t help you manage all of your testing resources in one place, and that’s a huge problem. In today’s world of online, remote work and the rise of the gig economy, distributed testing is not only widespread—but it also provides countless benefits to product and engineering teams (including faster releases).

Unless someone at your organization has built internal QA software, your in-house testers and your external testing resources are not testing under the same platform. We know, because no collective testing software exists, until now that is. We’ve enabled groundbreaking collective testing capabilities under our test management platform to keep your testing under one roof. But what does this really mean? And why should you—as a QA manager, dev team leader, or DevOps manager—care?

There are numerous test metrics or criteria to measure the success of mobile applications. But in a world of agile software testing, it’s more than just discovered defects. What other results matter in software quality and for end-users? Which QA metrics help validate the efficacy of your efforts? When it comes to QA metrics, there is no one size fits all. Just like in software development, you’ll want to align your benchmarks against your goals for the project.

Client employees and Testlio freelancers test together for exceptional QA results November 11, 2020. Austin, TX and Tallinn, Estonia. Today, Testlio, the originator of networked testing, announced the availability of version 3.1 of its testing management platform.