Advantages

Weekend testing lends itself well to areas such as localization, language, and mobile app and device testing. Its key advantages include:

• More tester interactions and tester clubs: Each tester builds upon their respective experiences and this collaboration enriches the quality of testing.
• Demonstration of testing: Questions ranging from How can you complete testing without test cases? and How can you repeat testing? to How will the client accept that we tested? are easily answered, thanks to a transparency policy. Testing remains open for scrutiny by anyone at any time. You can witness testing happening right in front of your eyes.
• Tester opinion and better open source software: Weekend testing thrives on the use of open source software for tracking bugs; as a result, clients who are averse to spending need not incur costs for purchasing commercial testing tools.
• Scalability and time to market: Midsized software suppliers may be forced to increase the number of team members over a limited span of time. Weekend testing can help with its vast pool of skilled and experienced testers. Moreover, as weekend testers are being spread across the globe, customers have the benefit of locating resources in their respective time zones.
• Localization and language testing: Weekend testing is a forum that consists of testers from various countries and cultures. Testers are readily available for localization testing and validation. Consequently, procuring a weekend tester for a specific language may be easily achieved.
• Device and app testing: Mobile applications need to be validated on a broad spectrum of elements that include mobile hardware, network, and OS. Software suppliers are struggling to build mobile labs that host these devices, and as such, are using emulators in the absence of devices. Weekend testing solves this logistical problem, as the tester pool is so vast. Furthermore, testing teams have a broad array of devices and OSs on which the applications may be deployed and tested. This eliminates the need to test the applications on emulators. In addition, applications are released in some regions ahead of others, and testers from these leading regions could provide the required experience to other lagging regions.