I agree -- the connection between testers and developers is critical. Actually, most of our customers use uTest as a resource in addition to (not instead of) their in-house QA personnel.

It's a way for dev shops to get an extra 5 or 50 or 500 testers to bang away on their application in whatever locations, languages and platforms they require, and only during the peak periods when they need the extra testing help. It can be wide open exploratory testing, or the company can provide test scripts that they want testers to cover.

Kris --

Thanks for helping to intro uTest and community-based app testing to gaming devs everywhere. I wanted to mention that game developers of all shapes & sizes can use uTest -- not just small shops. In fact, some of our earliest wins in the gaming space, to which you referred (888.com and Gaming Tech Solutions), are large, global players.

As we've started working with more and more gaming app developers, you've definitely picked up several new readers around our offices. Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
matt

Matt Johnston
uTest, Inc
www.utest.com