Software testing — manual and automated
Software testing checks a website or app through a user's eyes: sign-up, cart, payment, different browsers and phones. Before a release or after a bad update, describe the product in an order, and testers will send responses. Or pick a specialist yourself by services, portfolio and client reviews.
Software testers
How much website or app testing costs
What affects the price
Scope of features and flows
A landing page with a contact form and an app with user accounts, roles and payments have very different numbers of scenarios to walk through.
Browsers, devices and OS versions
Every extra browser, phone model or Android and iOS version means one more run of the same checks.
Manual checks or automated tests
Automated tests first have to be written and set up, then maintained, but after every update they rerun the same checks with no manual work.
Requirements and test cases
If there are no written requirements or test cases, the tester first has to learn the product and write them — a separate stage.
One release or ongoing work
Testing a single release is often priced as a project, while testing every update over months is paid hourly or monthly.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a QA tester
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose a software tester
- 1
A sample bug report
Ask to see a bug report or test cases from a similar project, without the client's data: with a good bug description, a developer sees right away how to reproduce the bug.
- 2
Your type of product
A website, a mobile app, an API and a game need different tools, and each has its own typical bugs. Look for a tester whose services include your platform.
- 3
Real devices, not just an emulator
For a mobile app, ask which phones and OS versions will be used for testing: some bugs only show up on a real device.
- 4
A test environment and accounts
Agree on where the testing will be done: load tests or real payments on the live site can affect your customers. Give the tester separate test accounts, not your own.
- 5
What you get at the end
Agree on the result: a report on the bugs found, test cases or automated tests in the repository. Also check whether a retest after fixes is included.
What to put in the order
What to test: a website, mobile app, API or game — and what stage the product is at
Key flows: sign-up, search, cart, payment, user account
Browsers, platforms and devices the product must be checked on
What you need: manual testing, test cases, automated tests or load testing
Whether there is a separate test environment or the checks have to run on the live site
Payment, the release date and whether future updates need testing too
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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