uTest: Get Paid to Find Bugs

Re:uTest: Get Paid to Find Bugs by dawnerd on Sunday February 10, 2008 @02:29PM (#113053)

I can see this being useful, but what incentives would I, as a developer have, of paying people to find bugs? Especially when they pay me and find the bugs and usually report them anyways?

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Re:uTest: Get Paid to Find Bugs by reitzensteinm on Sunday February 10, 2008 @03:54PM (#113073)

Bugs found by your paying customers have a cost even if they appear to you to be free. They increase the total cost of using your software, and in a perfectly fungible world ruled by rationality that's extra money you could be charging them for bug free software.

It also helps with massively distributed software where invidiuals are less likely to report bugs (without some kind of automated bug sendoff tool). Netscape had their $50 bug scheme, for instance.

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Re:uTest: Get Paid to Find Bugs by dawnerd on Sunday February 10, 2008 @06:56PM (#113128)

Good points. I never really thought about the increase in cost of using the software.

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Re:uTest: Get Paid to Find Bugs by ubudesign on Sunday February 10, 2008 @08:34PM (#113168)

you can alway beta test your software before adding the cost of bug to your customers

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