Methodical testing company Testin

Ceo,44, a testin of the automated app testing company, looks more like the head of a maturing business: a typical middle-aged man with a slim figure, smiling from time to time, talking slowly and logically. He led the start-up company to expand its business with the same pace. Making money outside the "hot spot" of mobile internet is only a matter of time, as the technology company sees it. They are happy to see the Giants enter the competition and call it "risk endorsement".

What Testin do?

Wang June's team is not a star entrepreneur, so what testin do is obviously more important than who he is.

It has been reported that Testin is known as the "Running Program Factory", it is difficult to find a more figurative metaphor to describe the company's business model. In terms of professional terminology, Testin is a mobile app real-machine cloud testing platform that provides adaptive true-machine testing for a variety of mobile terminal apps. You will see it on the official website labeled "Free" word. Yes, for individual developers, more than 130 of Testin's 1200 terminals are open to them for free, but the remainder is charged.

Wang June did not disclose the price of the test fees. Foreign similar enterprises Perfecto mobile charges are 25 U.S. dollars/hour, 5796 USD/year (not limited to long, applicable to enterprise users).

Testin's 1200 end of the day the task is to upload the application of developers one by one test, commonly known as "running program." In Testin's 400-square-metre office, there are two closet-sized black cabinets, which display a variety of mobile phones and tablets that are testing the app. These terminals cover the mainstream systems such as iOS, Android and WP, but because Android fragmentation causes more adaptation problems, most terminals are Android devices. Public data show that Google Google Play and Apple App Store applications have been more than 500,000.

Wang June said the Testin platform is about 500-800 application tests per day. What developers have to do is upload their app packages on Testin's Web site, select the system version, resolution, and screen size you want to test, and then automatically select 10 Android terminals for fitness testing. A typical app test will experience installation-load-run-uninstall-delete 5 programs in a testin terminal, resulting in a log log (test log file) and a test report (Problem Rollup and improvement advice). Developers can make improvements to their apps based on these two reports.

This is a great liberation for both individual developers and business testers. Developers do not have to manually test the various models, and do not have to record the test process. The enterprise does not need to use the high cost tactics in the test part again. Lenovo application store and service business manager Caofalai, who led a 50-person testing team, has shrunk to 2 after working with Testin for fee-based services.

Making money out of "hot spots"

So, the charging app terminal test is Testin's business model? No.

In the words of Wang June, Testin wants to make money outside the "hot spots" of mobile internet. From the application dimension, doing the application is "hot", too many developers in the past two years into this area, Red Sea failure probability is too large, so they do not do. Judging from the dimensions of the test, Testin is not quite sure about the size and uncertainty of the individual developer fee test, so it is their real goal to pay for a more willing and more scalable enterprise market.

At present, Tencent, Youku and Lenovo Enterprises have become Testin customers. Youku and Lenovo's test leaders are not easily disclosed with testin cooperation price. In order to avoid the customer information by the competition goods company obtains, Testin also did not announce the Enterprise user's charge standard. They acknowledge that the current stage of corporate service charges are symbolic. Testin and enterprise cooperation mainly divides into the annual contract, the monthly payment and each application unit price three kinds of forms. At present, most of the cooperation is strategic cooperation, the use of cost capping form.

In the enterprise market, Testin's service is not just a simple app suitability test, but also includes user monitoring after app online. According to Wang June, Testin currently in the country, including Hong Kong's 5 cities with room, the main business of these rooms is to monitor various areas of broadband Environment app service status and user experience is normal, and the existing problems in real-time feedback to corporate customers. And the room is dispersed in all parts of the main to save user and server node traffic. "This service is especially good for real-time online apps like games and videos." ”

"This is one of our main sources of revenue in the future. One hours after the interview, Wang June was willing to confide in Testin's long-term intentions. For Testin, the free app test is the way to cut into the online test field, and intelligent detection is the core of the future. Of course, when developers gather to a certain extent on its platform, Testin can also do display advertising, but Wang June obviously does not have any interest in this: "Of course we can do (advertising), but that is not the main." ”

Given the cost of an enterprise-scale market expansion, Testin is not planning to expand in a "fast-breaking" fashion. And in the Developer app Test, they hope to enter the foreign market by cooperating with international influence such as Evernote and ifree.

Competition: Wait for opponents to enter

Speaking to the royal Army is a difficult task, he does not seem to think that the automated test will usher in fierce competition.

"The giant came in in fact to endorse our risk." "said Wang June. He is convinced that Testin is doing the right thing, and that the giant's approach is the side that justifies the judgment.

But, after the risk endorsement mano competition?

At present, Baidu Open platform and China Mobile mm are in the app automation testing business.

China Mobile's mobile mm developer community is an opponent known to Testin. The Community's terminal pool provides developers with more than 300 real machines for free testing.

Baidu Mobile Cloud Testing Center (MTC) also open Android Fitness test, but only involving dozens of major manufacturers of mobile terminal equipment and simulators. "Baidu only dozens of models, and its own easy to do mobile phones, so it is likely to do the main mobile phone test, and then put several other manufacturers of the model to do foil." This is Wang June to Baidu this opponent's analysis judgment.

Another chip in the hands of Wang June is patent. According to his introduction, there are more than 50 core patents in the field of automated testing, and Testin has achieved more than 30 of them, such as graphic comparison recognition, real machine control and multi-touch operation Records. But Testin does not have a specific plan for the patent right now, all of which are based on future competition defense considerations.

Yue Bin is the vice president of IDG Capital, Testin is also the project he handled. IDG before the investment also noted that Baidu is doing the business, but he believes that Baidu will first develop its own PC-side main industry mobile internet, may not be able to do a good job in this emerging market. In addition, Testin not like the marketing-oriented electric dealer "burning money", the cost of controllability is also the two consecutive rounds of testin investment in IDG reasons.

"Pica" Business

September 2010, Domestic mobile phone client application developer Pica sold to China Soft International for 91 million dollar price. This is known as the first successful exit of the domestic VC mobile Internet Project. At that time, Wang June is still in charge of testing business in Pica, for he has a pioneering idea, the company sold as an opportunity. In early 2011, Wang June with Pica 6 colleagues left, Testin founded.

Doing app testing is the consensus of this technical team. In Pica, Wang June and his team struggled with the mechanical app test, and they saw too many mobile internet apps to fail quickly, or to be hard propped up by the business model. So the team decided to do a few automated testing services. In their view, this is similar to Amazon Web Services (AWS) of the basic service, but also has a certain technical threshold, so the mobile internet "hotspot" outside the entrepreneurial opportunities.

Of the 7-person entrepreneurial team, Wang June, Dai and Hai Xiaohai Three people to create the company. The current team division of labor, Hai Xiaohai is only responsible for funds, another core member Yin Chunpeng responsible for all technical research and development, Wang June is to co-ordinate the technical, financial and other operational issues. In the year that followed, the Testin team developed more than 60 people and completed two rounds of financing.

Testin's Pica brand extends from the company's team to a capital component. Hai Xiaohai is a director of China Soft International, and the two consecutive rounds of investment in Testin's IDG capital were Pica's shareholders before. "Pica successful exit, so IDG to our team or accumulated some understanding and trust." "said Wang June.

Now Testin employees work 12 hours a day and work 6 days a week. This pace of work is commonplace in startups. Testin has no intention of using tens of millions of dollars in two rounds of financing to expand the team significantly. For them, the solution to the overall system at the bottom of the stability of the operation of such technical issues is the urgent matter. "Our money will last for at least 7 years. "said Wang June.

Testin (Cloud Survey Network) team introduction

Wang June (Weibo)

CEO, co-founder

Early as the UT Tatsu Kang company marketing manager;

1999 as U.S. net Company in China, Asian leaders;

Joined the Pica in 2006;

2011, participate in the creation of cloud Survey network Testin.

Dai

VP Twist (Vice President of Operations), has previously participated in the CAS automation of several joint research projects;

Yin Chunpeng

VP R&d,

The original Pica space and MSN Project leader, prior to the joint public game Mobile project Technology leader, Tsinghua University, graduated from engineering physics.

(Team resume information provided by Testin)