Case Study: Sideshow achieves stronger international QA coverage with test IO

Sideshow saves up to 8 hours per week with test IO

Sideshow, a Los Angeles-based manufacturer and distributor of high-end pop culture collectibles, faced significant challenges in testing its ecommerce website as its international business grew. With a lean development team, manual testing became impractical, especially for the wide variety of mobile devices used by its global customer base. This led to bugs reaching production and communication issues with customers. To address this, Sideshow partnered with the crowdtesting vendor test IO for functional testing on its staging environment.

By implementing test IO's on-demand testing platform, Sideshow gained access to a global community of testers. This provided extensive international device and time-zone coverage, ensuring geographically specific issues were caught before release. The solution saved the team up to eight hours per week in testing time, allowed them to confidently release new features like a shopping cart, and resulted in more than 85% of the detailed, expert-submitted bug reports being accepted.

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