Blog Posts Tagged Centercode Platform

Competitive Motivation in Beta Tests

In this post, Symantec Beta Program Manager James McKey provides a great overview of his creative method of successfully motivating beta testers using weekly rewards based on the most valuable feedback gathered.

Centercode Connect 9.3 Released

Centercode News

We’re proud to announce the release if Centercode Connect 9.3. This release greatly improves our knowledge base functionality, and simplifies the arduous task of controlling user access to resources throughout your beta tests. In addition we’ve addressed a number of outstanding bugs, and further increased performance across many areas of the platform.

Holiday Beta Testing, Humbug.

Test Launch

Each year around this time, right as it seems that the world of business is stepping into its short winter slumber, we inevitably receive the same call: “I’d like to get a beta test started immediately!”. Undoubtedly, they’re working on a product for release early in the new year, it’s most likely consumer facing, and they naturally assume that given so many people have much of the holiday period off, it’s a great time to begin their beta test.

Connect 9.2 Released!

Centercode News

We’re happy to announce the release of Centercode Connect 9.2. Connect 9.2 offers a number of great tools to reduce the time necessary to manage a large community of users, including improved methods to reset passwords, trade compliance to restrict access to specific countries or IP ranges, and the long awaited ability to require unique email addresses. This release also addresses well over 75 bugs, and includes improved workflows for tools throughout many areas of the platform (including Surveys and Feedback Types).

Connect 9.2 Coming Soon

Centercode News

We’re pleased to announce the upcoming release of Centercode Connect 9.2. This release adds a number of great new features, focuses on further improvising usability and performance, and provides new tools designed to save community administration time. In addition to the new functionality listed below, Connect 9.2 includes over 75 bug fixes and a great deal of additional polish and improved workflows throughout many of our tools.

Centercode So Far (2009 Edition)

Centercode News

As part of our internal 2009 year-end review I asked my engineers to run some queries on our entire software platform to illustrate the total impact our software has had on the world so far. These numbers only cover the last 3 or so years, but I believe they’re great fun stats and do a good job showing the effect we’ve had so far.

Beta Testing LinkedIn Group

Centercode News

We’ve just helped to create a Beta Testing sub-group to the Software Testing & Quality Assurance Group on Linked In. This is intended to be a non-biased place to discuss beta testing process and practices. We’re encouraging open communication on tools, best practices, and any questions you might have (which we’ll be there to answer regularly).

Connect 9.1 Released!

Centercode News

We’re proud to announce that Connect 9.1 has completed its test phase, and will be posted to live servers starting next week. This release focuses on the introduction of Project Wikis, a collaborative system which offers entirely new ways to engage your participants, allowing them to help improve your existing materials, or develop completely new ones from scratch. Participant contributed materials might include product documentation, support, marketing messaging, or whatever else you envision. In addition, we’ve put a great deal of work into simplifying the project creation process, while improving the entire set of project management tools. The following is a summary of the release notes, as well as a link to the complete details, including detailed documentation for all new functionality.

Centercode Platform Video Tour

Centercode News

We’ve just posted a video overview of our beta test management software, which provides a ~10 minute introduction to a beta/project manager perspective of using our beta management software. Centercode is an enormous product that was extremely difficult to summarize in such a short time, but we worked hard to pack as much information into […]

Why Didn’t You Run a Beta Test?

Test Planning

So your company just released its latest product and to the horror of the development team, several critical bugs have slipped into the release. Your engineering team is scrambling to get the issues addressed and support is screaming as they get inundated with calls and e-mail. Everyone is busy pointing fingers, and the common thread among your product reviews, social web commentary and general customer complaints is “Did anyone beta test this thing?” And as the company faces the scrutiny of the press, the public and the customer, the one question that gets asked is “Why didn’t you run a beta test?”

Where Does Beta Belong?

Test Planning

A case could be made for many different departments to own beta testing. Here we weigh the pros and cons of each department's ownership.

Connect 9.1 Coming (Really) Soon

Centercode News

For the first post of our new Connect Blog we’d like to announce the imminent release of Centercode Connect 9.1. Connect 9.1 is a small release focused on Project Management Usability, bug fixes, and a number of small long-requested enhancements.

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