Centercode News
Meet the Betabound Team
If the Customer Validation platform is the skeleton, Betabound is the beating heart of Centercode. Every day…
June 10, 2019 · 6 min read
Test Strategy
4 Key Elements of Testing VR
Experiencing technology firsthand is central to our mission here at Centercode. That’s why when our CEO Luke…
June 3, 2019 · 3 min read
Product Development
Feature Flagging: Your Secret Weapon in Continuous Customer Testing
Software testing teams often find themselves sacrificing quality for speed when it comes to getting updates…
May 29, 2019 · 3 min read
Product Development
Handling Software Testing in Continuous Delivery
It’s clear that continuous delivery and Agile are the way of the future for software development. The problem…
May 20, 2019 · 2 min read
Test Strategy
How to Test a Folding Smartphone (and Other Emerging Tech)
Seeing the risks and rewards of emerging technology unfold is part of what makes the tech industry so…
May 14, 2019 · 4 min read
Industry News
Improving Modern Software Development with Customer Feedback
Last month, Coding Sans shared the insights of almost 700 tech survey respondents in their 2019 State of…
May 7, 2019 · 3 min read
Leader Insights
How Sonos is Leveraging User Research to Enhance Their Beta Program
Beta testing is much more than a box to check off on a list. While some companies only think of it as a…
April 24, 2019 · 5 min read
Centercode News
Meet the Centercode Customer Success Team
Our customers love our Customer Success Team – and for good reason! They’re your first responders, trainers…
April 23, 2019 · 6 min read
Product Development
The Beginner’s Guide to Identifying Beta Program Metrics
What are beta program metrics exactly? Which ones are important? Why do I need them? These are the types of…
April 16, 2019 · 5 min read
Leader Insights
AI and the Future of Testing
Whether it’s the rise of AI, CI/CD, or DevOps, the lines between testing and development are blurring. But as…
April 11, 2019 · 5 min read
Product Development
How Technology Drives the Evolution of Beta Testing
We may associate the idea of beta testing with Google, Microsoft, video games, and other tech with roots in…
April 9, 2019 · 5 min read
Leader Insights
Developing a Test Strategy for the Agile World
Test strategy is critical to the success of any testing effort – but where do you start? How does your…
April 1, 2019 · 4 min read
Industry News
Tester-Powered: How Google Will Support Stadia with Beta
You know that classic movie scene where a new kid walks into a classroom and everyone turns to stare? That…
March 27, 2019 · 4 min read
Test Planning
Mobile Beta Test Planning Tactics and Strategies
When a mobile app is sluggish, unresponsive, or difficult to use, one of two things is likely to happen. One…
March 20, 2019 · 4 min read
Test Strategy
Crowdsourced Testing vs. Beta Testing: What’s the Difference?
Imagine this: you have two groups of 100 testers. You give them the same product. You ask them to report back…
March 12, 2019 · 4 min read
Test Management
Beta Testing Success in 5 Steps
Centercode has been running beta tests for over 18 years. That’s why we can say this on good authority: beta…
February 20, 2019 · 12 min read
Industry News
Centercode User Group ‘19: Fresh Perspectives on Beta Testing
The spread of talent within the Customer Validation industry makes for brilliant conversations. These…
February 12, 2019 · 3 min read
Industry News
What the Amazon Beta Testing Ads Say About the CV Industry
My two favorite moments during a mostly uneventful Super Bowl were 1) Tony Romo circling all of the “punts”…
February 4, 2019 · 4 min read
Product Development
Making Your Customer Testing Program More Valuable in 2019
On an intuitive level, company leaders understand the necessity of Customer Validation. But actually proving…
January 28, 2019 · 5 min read
Test Management
Three Common Beta Testing Tools That Eat Up Test Managers’ Time
The results of the 2018 Customer Validation Industry Survey backed up what we already knew: time is a…
January 22, 2019 · 6 min read
Product Development
Five Customer Testing Areas Product Managers Are Improving in 2019
Hundreds of professionals from over 350 companies participated in the 2018 Customer Validation Industry…
January 15, 2019 · 6 min read
Centercode News
Happy Holidays from the Centercode Team
December’s almost over, but the Q4 hustle is still in full swing. Like everyone else, we at Centercode have…
December 20, 2018 · 3 min read
Test Planning
How to Craft Task Scenarios Like a Pro
One of the biggest challenges of managing feedback is organizing it. This isn’t news to most test managers…
December 17, 2018 · 4 min read
Product Development
How to Promote a Customer Zero Culture with Dogfooding
Over the course of the Dogfooding Best Practices series, we’ve discussed the advantages dogfooding brings and…
November 26, 2018 · 5 min read