STARDUST LAUNCHES WE-ARE-TESTERS.COM
StarDust, QA specialist, launches WE ARE TESTERS, a freelance Crowdtesting platform, therefore enriching its testing offer, multiplying testing possibilities with a unique combination of testing approaches; in the laboratory; on-site or through the crowd.
Businesses from all industries are permanently looking for innovative services that will help them give their customers the best digital experience possible. The ongoing pressure of ever shortening time-to-market deadlines has allowed disruptive services such as Crowdtesting to become one of the preferred solutions to secure digital products.
In comparison to what “traditional” QA operated from the laboratory can offer, Crowdtesting gives access to an international crowd of freelance testers based all around the world, offering a diversity of QA experience. Certain types of testing services, such as testing language and location features, and getting access to an increased device pool is made easier. Testing results are also delivered faster, with tests being done simultaneously around the world by several testers.
Finally, a smaller budget can be allocated to Crowdtesting, enabling companies that couldn’t afford testing with the lab, such as startups, to better test their products and ensure the end quality of their product.
Not all projects can be crowdtested, but not all projects need thorough testing either. That’s why we created WE-ARE-TESTERS and we developed a way to combine traditional in the lab testing and Crowdtesting, each approach complementing the other. The ability of mixing both approaches as a delivery-model is enabled whilst retaining quality control.
By creating WE ARE TESTERS, we started our own digital evolution with two goals in mind: to build a worldwide community of QA professionals and to offer our customers a new testing experience in line with their growing needs for agility. Digital quality is our DNA, the guiding principle behind our transformation,” says François Joseph Viallon, CEO of StarDust.
Quality is the core value of this combination as StarDust is the link between crowdtesters and clients. Freelance testers go through a rigorous hiring process (and can then pick and choose campaigns). Thanks to a dedicated platform, StarDust’s Project Managers oversee crowdtesting campaigns and check the test results before delivering the bug report. Thus, testing either through the lab or with the crowd, the quality of QA remains.
About the crowdtesting community : “Our desire, when we imagined WE ARE TESTERS, was to change the way we produce tests,” explains Claire Bertrand, Product Manager. “Building the platform, and the rapid registration of the first 100 crowdtesters, brought us more: the desire to create a real professional community gathered around common values, digital quality and enthusiastic knowledge sharing.”
With regards to the internal evolution of StarDust, François Joseph Viallon adds: “The assimilation of crowdtesting into the StarDust offer has pushed us out of our comfort zone. We made ourselves a promise: commitment to our digital transformation without forgetting the heart of our business, manual testing performed by professionals on physical devices.”
ABOUT STARDUST
Founded in 2011 in Marseille, StarDust supports its customers throughout the process of creating, launching and securing their digital solutions (mobile apps, websites, other technologies).
– 2-digit growth since 2011
– 64 employees
– Offices: Marseille, Paris, Lille and Montreal (CA)
PRESS CONTACT
Anna Nicolle
+33 7 82 26 64 28
anna.nicolle@stardust-testing.com