Crowdtesting Provider Applause Launches Offering for Amazon Alexa

Crowdtesting provider Applause has just made available a testing service for Amazon Alexa skills and devices. The solution provides software testing, payment transaction validation and user feedback services. Applause works by recruiting and vetting “”According to the company, its Alexa solution, like its standalone platform, offers access to “a community of 300,000+ vetted testers worldwide”. “Alexa Skills and devices must have predictable dialect interpretation, flawless connectivity and, of course, an intuitive user experience,” said Charlie Ungashick, Head of Product at Applause. “The only way you can guarantee that your design will match reality is to test it in the wild, with real people, on real devices.” Applause highlights capabilities including the service’s ability to test Alexa skills in a wide variety of locations, with a multitude of different voices, languages and dialects, on 2.4 million real devices. The company also highlights the diversity of testing practices it offers, as well as the ability to integrate existing bug tracking systems with the Alexa platform.