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24/11/2020

Munich, November 24th, 2020. The IT consulting and system integration company msg has announced its partnership with the Munich-based testing specialist Testbirds. The cooperation aims to create a tailored and complementary service portfolio in the field of software testing. Testbirds is a world-leading provider of crowdtesting solutions and offers its customers a global crowdtesting platform focused on quality assurance and user experience of digital products. The platform, in conjunction with msg’s testing expertise and access to customers should enable the partners to tap in to new market potential. Thanks to this partnership, msg customers will also benefit in future from the full-service offering in software testing. For the first time, they will be able to have their digital products tested in a public crowd and thus improve them without the need for a third-party provider

Optimized Usability Through Swarm Intelligence

Testbirds has been offering its crowdtesting platform since 2011. It enables companies to have their apps, websites or IoT (internet of things) applications tested by real end users and under real conditions. This method has great potential to optimize digital products, especially with regard to functionality, user-friendliness and usability. Using msg’s customer base, Testbirds hopes to make crowdtesting attractive for other companies. The cooperation with the IT consulting company also makes it possible to provide customers with support in all aspects of software quality assurance from a single source. This way, msg can round out its software testing service portfolio. The partnership between the two service provides primarily covers tasks related to the sales and delivery of crowdtesting services and marketing activities.

Stefan Jobst, Head of Test & Quality Management at msg, says: “We are looking forward to supporting our customers in driving forward the further development of their digital products even better in the future with the help of swarm intelligence in the Testbirds crowd.”

Richard Waldner, Head of Partner Management at Testbirds, explains: “Our goal is to provide our customers with a way to make their digital products as user-friendly as possible through crowdtesting.” “In msg, we have found a partner that has a wealth of experience and expertise in the field of user experience and software testing and whose diversified cross-industry customer base opens up a totally new market potential for us.”