Case Study: SoundCloud achieves faster, higher-quality mobile releases with test IO

SoundCloud finds 150 bugs across 144 devices with test IO

SoundCloud, the world's largest music platform, faced the challenge of ensuring a flawless mobile experience for its millions of users as it shifted focus from web to mobile apps and introduced new monetization models. With a rapid release schedule, their internal QA was a bottleneck. They partnered with test IO for on-demand, crowdtested QA to discover critical bugs across a vast array of real devices and improve release quality.

Using test IO’s service, SoundCloud gained access to a global community of professional testers who provided continuous testing on real devices under real-world conditions. This solution identified over 150 bugs in an initial test, including 11 critical issues, saving engineering time and preventing user-facing problems. test IO enabled SoundCloud to release updates with fewer bugs and superior device compatibility, which paved the way for the successful launch of their new revenue models.

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