I’m pretty certain I’m speaking for most developers, but we hate testing. Like proof reading your own paper, not only can you never find your own errors, but the more you look at it, the less excited you get about your creation.
So some people choose to automate the testing process, through the solve it all word of the IT word (to managers at least), “Scripts”. There are now programmers who make a living designing testing scripts, and plenty of consultants out there who would gladly take your money to help you with some testing scripts.
Testing scripts are designed to mimic user behavior, and truly excels at stress testing. It can also successfully find many bugs that a user would encounter as he navigates your software or website. However, while a script might be able to find a 404 error, it wouldn’t know if a link is pointing to the wrong area, or that Chrome is rendering your image a few pixels off from where Firefox does it.
This is where human testing comes into play. Fact is, most of us never report bugs and glitches to the webmaster. For every time someone finds a glitch that actually report it, you know thousands have seen it. This is a huge loss of confidence for your product, unless you are Google or eBay, people seldom forgive glitches and continue with a purchase.
Pay4Bugs is a system designed to solve this problem. Our global team of testers use a wide variety of platforms, and each behave differently from the other. The key is our testers will report everything they see, so you can fix it before your real paying customers see the inevitable error.
The best part? Pay4Bugs is free to use.
Our team’s pattern is that severity is the stage of technical impact while priority is the degree of business organization impact. The tester may mark an original value to priority, but finally the ultimate conclusion on priority is owned by the business collaborator. Also, we endeavor to set definitions for severity that leave little way for debate, while the definitions for priority are more pliable and respondent to business demand.