How many beta testers do you need to create the perfect app? Ubertesters review
Alex Wilson
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Alex Wilson
Business Development Manager at Ubertesters | Mobile Application Testing All-Inclusive, Real-Time Solution
Although the numbers of engaged beta testers do play a large role at times, the boundaries are entirely based on your objectives. If you are looking for an overview, we recommend only about 4 or 5 beta testers for small independent projects. For casual app startups (like Flash Player and Quick Notes) you could get by with 10 or 25 beta testers. For B2B applications, we’d suggest around 70 to 300 testers (depending on the complexity of course). And last but not least for your gaming app, it would be best to get 200 or more testers involved.
Nevertheless, there are many facets to consider before embarking on your beta test prior to actually initiating it. You need to know what you want to get...
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) | Software Tester | Business Analyst
8 年Interesting read!
Test Engineer en Annexus
8 年Hello, in my opinion the "Perfect App" is very difficult to achieve it or simply does not exist, always the applications need to be upgraded or contain bugs/enhancements. In theory, for each 3 developers working on some application it must be 1 tester, this is like a rule. But as you said, all depend of the application scope.