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What do you like best about Applause?

Quality of defects and the coverage are the best thing and we get the cycle report in one of the most descriptive and accurate way which helps us to take right decesion.

Always pragmatic about the testing and we got some good quality testers all the time to run the cycle Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Applause?

Nothing I can think of now. Applause is doing great. Keep the good work going Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Best in the market, we can trust blindly .. Quality is the thing that applause brings in Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Applause solving and how is that benefiting you?

Device coverage, OS coverage, crowd testing and as well as UAT testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Applause Overview

What is Applause?

Applause is the world leader in testing and digital quality. Brands today win or lose customers through digital interactions, and Applause alone can deliver authentic feedback on the quality of digital assets and experiences, provided by real users in real-world settings. Our disruptive approach harnesses the power of the Applause platform and leverages a vetted community of more than one million digital experts worldwide. Unlike traditional testing methods (including lab-based and offshoring), we respond with the speed, scale and flexibility that digital-focused brands require and expect. Applause provides insightful, actionable testing results that can directly inform go/no go release decisions, helping development teams build better and faster, and release with confidence. Thousands of digital-first brands – including Ford, Google, Western Union and Dow Jones – rely on Applause as a best practice to deliver the digital experiences their customers love. Learn more at www.applause.com.

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Applause assembles custom teams of vetted professionals to test any device/OS combination in the world. Our white-glove approach enables leading brands to accelerate their software development and deliver high-quality digital experiences to their customers.


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What do you like best about Applause?

Real user feedback from local testers, can provide information that it's impossible to get from automation not only for real user experience but also cultural insight for UI/UX Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Applause?

Would appreciate more flexibility on slots (multislot concept is an advance).

High price is preventing us from doing a most intensive use of the service.

We are working with Excel Spread sheets as platform requires big effort to be kept up to date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Applause:

GReat Value for UX feedback coming from real users with local culture across all regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Applause solving and how is that benefiting you?

Localized UX Feedback, Localized BUG discovery.

Test how specific cahnges impacts in different regions.

Organize UX feedback cycles to identify the most common UX issues in different countries based on feedback from local testers with local culture and UX expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Applause?

Applause give you the flexibility to test in ways that were previously impossible. You can leverage people from around the world to get feedback your products. In addition to guided exploratory testing, you can have testers build and/or execute specific test scenarios. This is excellent for when you have not automated your testing yet but need a way to get fast feedback on your regression testing. Using Applause has changed the way our development teams look at application quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Applause?

The platform you use to manage the process could use more polish. The system you use to communicate with the testers desperately needs a mobile app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Applause solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have used Applause for very different problems to solve, but they all center around a central theme. I needed a force multiplier that could scale as needed. Applause quickly filled this need. I have used Applause for both front of house and back of house systems with positive results. The back of house system can be extremely complex, and I was doubtful as to whether or not the testing would be useful. Applause partnered with us for a good training program to get the testers up to speed. Within just a few days we received valuable feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Applause?

I like the disponibility of each persons in the company always available to answer your questions.

I like the fact that Applause's technical employee understand clearly and fastly what are our needs in terms of contraint and tests. The roadmap fixed is followed, there is no delays and much better people gave you insights to help you getting your product more secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Applause?

Applause is well integrated with their own tools, maybe they should work on implementing ability to plug their tools with the one used in the company. Otherwise nothing bad to say about Applause Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Applause:

Don't hesitate to talk about your needs of tests they will find the best way to help you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Applause solving and how is that benefiting you?

It ensure non regression of our product. Actually they can automated faster and clearer our non regression tests. They also provide tools and uses cases. It's like having more QA in our company without having to hire en form 10 people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Applause?

The ability to run tests on weekends, while my development team is not working and having fresh results by Monday.

The fact that the crowd brings a lot of devices that would takes us a lot of investment to have

The quality of the testers. Applause brings me true tests and valuable insights on my products. The reported bugs are not simple UI glitches. I can really take advantage of the submitted issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Applause?

The integration with my JIRA is still not there. We would benefit if it would be a bit more robust.

The portal with which we manage issues with Applause is good, but it lakes a a bit of a better UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Applause solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're testing a bunch of products with Applause. All web based. The benefits I'm having is that we're more confident when launching new products or changes in a product.

We got to the point of having 0 bugs reported when going through Applause first. And that was on our first cycle.

Completely amazing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Applause?

It' s very easy to interact with Applause Platform and team; the possibility to have cycles of test anytime and for each release or sprint is a very plus for our team.

Great accurancy in cycle and details management and very good support and flexibility to manage the particular case. The details for each TC or issue help us to understand easily the problem and it's a very pleasure to collaborate with smart people committed to the final result.

Clear and easy the possibility to link the Platform with our internal BTS and the dashboard for issues/TC.

Very good support for Platform use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Applause?

The management of different cycles is separated for products (iOS, Android and so on); when I want to test a same version on different products, there isn't the possibility to check automatically duplicated issues or to have a common dashboard.

It's just a detail in a very good Platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Applause solving and how is that benefiting you?

We also needed feedback on the UX / UI of our products and the ability to interact with different people was an advantage for us (very detailed review by the testers).

With the help of the Applause team we have come out over time and with an excellent quality standard and we have certainly been able to control regression closing our internal automation project with the possibility of focusing on many details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Applause?

Applause is very responsive to our requests, they have been able to set up campaigns on a short notice and have them on multiple countries for our products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Applause?

Programming a test campaign is cumbersome, the UI of the portal could be improved significantly.

It is not very clear how many resources will be allocated to the testing campaign and they are not always able to cover edge cases such as specific devices/OS versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Applause:

Take time preparing your testing campaigns. Applause is very responsive, but they should be able to provide a better service if you do not work on last minutes request. They do not fully replace a QA department but they can offer you extra manpower when you want to polish your product and need to cover as much devices/OS/behaviors as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Applause solving and how is that benefiting you?

Applause allows us to test our products on a larger panel of devices than what we are able to provide with our current workforce. They have allowed us to do testing campaigns on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Applause?

Applause allows us to conduct qualitative user research in different markets across the world. Their panel of international users helped us to uncover important insights in our core markets Germany, Italy, UK, Spain and Romania. We especially value the expertise of their seasoned UX professionals, who are always open to discuss and iterate on the research processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Applause?

There's not much to dislike. The only thing I can think of is that it would be awesome if they offered moderated user testing in addition to unmoderated. Their delivery times are quite quick and I can't comment much on the pricing. It's definitely worth it for us, but maybe too expensive for smaller companies? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Applause:

Try it out for yourself! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Applause solving and how is that benefiting you?

As the UX team in my organization we are responsible for uncovering deep user needs and insights across our products. Sadly we're struggling with language barriers in a lot of our markets. This makes it very difficult to conduct user research ourselves. Applause helps us to bridge this gap when we can't simply conduct user research with our users by ourselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Applause?

Applause has streamlined our workflow for releases, by enabling us to reduce our quality assurance testing by around 40%. The most valuable aspect of the service is a clear and precise communication of issues found and direct contact with the project team to help resolve points raised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Applause?

Nothing to dislike - this has set the standard for our delivery process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Applause solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're reducing testing time and providing ourselves with more thorough field testing, which is enabled by having a broad demographic of testers in multiple environments. It's also enabled us to have improved insights on user experience before the product has reached the end user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Applause?

The professionalism of the team, the variation of testers and their availability. And the flexibility of the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Applause?

Limited filters on the platform which doesn't help when you need to filter by country Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Applause solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a lot of countries to test in a short period, so we need to be able to be everywhere at once.

Moreover thanks to the testers expertise and Applause's they help us anticipate future issues and give us a fresh feedback. Which goes with our user driven experience objective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Applause?

Good standardized but customizable bugreports.

(at least a screenshot and clear steps to reproduce, but also often videos when needed).

And i have the feeling that applause test-runs rarely miss any bugs.

A wide array of devices for testing is available.

Bug verification is fast, and very solid solid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Applause?

The bugreporting platform is functional, but definetly could use a more userfriendly redesign.

Sometimes i have the feeling that very similar bugs could be easily bundled into one bug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Takes some time to get into it, but then is of great value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Applause solving and how is that benefiting you?

Thanks to applause, we do not need to build a huge base of devices to test our application.

Especially our mobile testing wouldn't be feasible at the same cost if we did it inhouse.

First and foremost, we can guarantee to release only propperly tested increments without building up inhouse Qa structures.

With the standardized test-cases we can see, that new releases don't harm existing functionality (regression testing).

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