One of the most frustrating things about developing software products is not being able to get enough QA testing coverage in before the product release, and having to make trade-offs in features because there isn’t enough time to test a particular browser or OS.

uTest.com offers an interesting solution: a full army of virtualized QA folks, with full visibility into testing coverage and bug reports:

• On-demand access to the uTester community based on tester skill-set, platform, environment, and geographic locations.
• Define real-time testing requirements, create/upload test scripts, user documentation, and integration with bug tracking applications (i.e. Jira, Bugzilla, Trac, Rally) and export to MS Excel
• Control of your testing budget and test cycles
• Direct communication with testers via the uTest Platform on a per release, per bug basis
• Dedicated uTest project manager responsible for focusing and managing your community of testers and ensuring that your release cycle objectives are fully satisfied

It sounds too good to be true.  Has anyone out there tried it?

Filed under: Cloud Computing, Enterprise Web, Product Management