In the fast changing web business environment, it is critical for site owners to test their web sites to assure the smooth running. The testing demand is pretty high due to the rapid growth of new sites. Newly opened sites are more and more and the functionalities are more comprehensive and thus complex. Large site usually requires much more testing work than small site. The increase in web site testing is non-linear. It’s exponential to the size of the web site.
Although there are lots of sites and tools for site owners to test the sites, such work is usually outsourced to testers in-house or freelance to improve efficiency. Acobay.com is designed as a web interface between website owners and online freelance testers. As long as site owners publish his/her site domains, web testers around the world will start the test right away and report potential bugs to site owners very quickly. Then the web site owners can validate these bugs and pay for the valid bugs.
Complexity of sites will bring in bugs more or less due to limited time allocated prior to release. Bugs will appear in different forms. Some bugs are minor, like typos, or broken links. Some bugs are functional or relates to compatibility issues, while others may be critical. The critical bug may cause the failure of the whole site and shall be avoided with the first priority.
For an entry-level tester who would like to work on acobay, typo check is the easiest thing to get hands on. You can copy all texts out from the web pages and input to MS Word. Then use spell check to see if there is any typo. Then report to the web site owners.
When you get more experienced you can try more site test tools to enlarge your scope of testing. Some tools are free of charge and can increase efficiency greatly. It will not take too long to get familiar with these tools. To name a few, functionality test tool, compatibility test tool, stress test tool, and regression web testing tools are all available online for free.
Of course, just test one site will not bring you big fortune. You must increase scale of testing. Because there are lots of sites waiting to test at acobay, you can always start from simple bugs and then upgrade to higher level step by step.
You can also communicate with site owners and other testers to exchange ideas or testing skills. The Acobay site is operating in a collaborative mode for web testing. It will allow more freedom to the individual money makers. Since testing work is shared by all testers at Acobay, one can decide his or her own contributions of time on the work, from half an hour to a whole day.
Scale economics is another advantage. Large tester pool will improve test validity and attract more clients. More clients will bring more income to testers. Such a loop will certainly benefit both sides.
Web site test is not as difficult as you may imagine, especially from the viewpoint of a site visitor. You will become a guru in web testing business online in weeks.
Author : Jack Yang
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