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Testbirds Joins Forces with Perfecto Mobile to Address Increasing Demand for Mobile Testing Solutions
[December 17, 2014]

Testbirds Joins Forces with Perfecto Mobile to Address Increasing Demand for Mobile Testing Solutions


Testbirds, the leading crowdtesting pioneer in Europe, and Perfecto Mobile, the world's leader in mobile application quality, today announced a partnership that combines their extensive testing expertise to further increase mobile application quality.

"With millions of apps available for download and thousands of different mobile devices on the market, testing mobile applications has become a challenging and time-consuming task. Almost half of application defects are found by end users, and some 58 percent of those defects are reported as user interface issues," said Roi Carmel, Senior Vice President of Product and Strategy at Perfecto Mobile (News - Alert). "Incorporating quality throughout the mobile app lifecycle has never been more crucial than it is today in creating a successful end user experience. We plan on working closely with Testbirds in order to bring together the power of crowdtesting and Perfecto Mobile's Continuous Quality Lab to push the mobile application quality industry to the next level."

Both companies specialize in mobile testing solutions for enterprises to test and optimize their applications. Perfecto Mobile offers the Continuous Quality Lab, their on-demand, cloud-based offering that enables the testing (automated and manual functional testing, monitoring and performance) of mobile apps under any real-world end-user condition throughout all stages of the software development lifecycle. Testbirds provides a crowd of professional testers as well as consumers, who test the applications' usablity and functionality under real-life circumstances. The crowd can be accessed via self-service or through a managed testing approach, including professional project managers who ensure quality and evaluate test results.



"We encourage enterprises to utilize different testing techniques throughout the entire development cycle," says Philipp Benkler, Co-founder and Managing Director at Testbirds. "There are many challenges for companies in setting up a holistic mobile testing approach. We want to share our combined expertise and showcase how to gain the best results at different stages of development."

For more information on how to integrate functional testing, performance testing and monitoring with crowdtesting, read the following white paper: Bridging the Essential Gap between Continuous Quality and Crowd Based Testing.


About Perfecto Mobile

Perfecto Mobile, the world's leader in mobile app quality, provides a hybrid cloud-based Continuous Quality Lab that enables mobile app development and testing teams to deliver better apps faster. The Continuous Quality Lab supports testing processes earlier and more often in the development cycle, giving way to faster feedback and improved time to market. Users can access an exhaustive selection of real mobile devices connected to live networks around the world and leverage them for testing and monitoring throughout the mobile application development lifecycle - from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support.

More than 1,500 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 500 across the banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications and media industries rely on Perfecto Mobile to deliver optimal mobile app functionality and end user experiences, ensuring their brand's reputation, establishing loyal customers, and continually attracting new users. For more information about Perfecto Mobile, visit perfectomobile.com or follow us on Twitter (News - Alert) at @PerfectoMobile.

About Testbirds GmbH

Testbirds is a crowdtesting service provider headquartered in Munich, with offices in the UK, the Netherlands and Hungary. The company specializes in the testing of mobile apps, websites and other software for the entire device landscape (mobile, desktop, smart TV, wearables etc.) on all major operating systems.

Testbirds uses crowdtesting to facilitate software testing in today's fast-growing world of technology. They hold a worldwide network of testers (crowd) consisting of experts as well as consumers to test software under real world conditions. The crowd finds bugs and gives critical usability feedback, ensuring the highest-possible user experience before launch.

Extensive device ecosystems as well as increased user expectations challenge conventional testing methods. Testbirds offers in-depth and cost-effective quality assurance for web applications and mobiles apps through the crowd on any device, with any target group, at any time. Today, crowdtesting is fast becoming a necessary tool for developers to help improve functionality and overall usability of any application.

Testbirds was founded in 2011 and supported by different institutions and partners. In 2012, the company received a seven-figure seed funding by Walter Beteiligungen und Immobilien AG.


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