March £10 a day thread 2

[rhij86]

Thought I would start a new thread seen as the last one is pretty much full! will post over Otterses' links now.

Thank you both, I feel knackered a bit better after some sleep.

@ruralwanderer the devices you have directly affect the cycles you're invited to. Generally, cycles will either be android 4+ or android 6+, I find, but then sometimes slots are given for specific devices. In terms of iPhones, iOS 9+ is generally required.

When I started, I just had a Samsung S6 Edge + (android 7.0) but it was really getting slow, so I upgraded to a S10. That's been totally worth it. Then I got hold of a couple of old phones my parents had in a drawer (A3 and J3), they're android 5.1.1 and android 8.0. I also took my daughter's knackered old tablet which is android 4.1. It's really useful because sometimes the old devices throw up bugs that the new devices won't.

In terms of iPhones, I got a second hand iPhone 7 plus. It's doubled the cycles I'm invited to - sometimes I get invited to 2 cycles that are exactly the same but one android and one iOS. Having said that, there's a quite lucrative project right now that I was invited to but can't do because you need iPhone 8 onwards, but that's rare. The iPhone 7 plus cost me £150 and it paid me back within a week or two.

Having both iOS and android is very useful. For example, I'm on a cycle right now that wants to knows if a bug can be reproduced on android or iOS and vice versa. If I didn't have both, I'd have to rely on someone else to perhaps check. As it is, I can say 'this reproduces on iOS' or 'iOS is fine', which increases the value of my report.

For example even within the Academy modules (uTest school) the mobile testing module has a section on screen video capture, where a video app records everything you do as you navigate your phone. I cannot find one anywhere that will run on the 5. Again there may be a way if you get, or the phone, already is, jailbroken but that's not something I want to do.

This module has a practical test cycle at the end so if that test includes the need for a vid grab to be uploaded there's no point proceeding. I was going to jump that module and proceed with the enxt but I've been so busy with physical work and the online work both on laptop for uT and the Ap... job that I haven't had time to get back to it.

Cool, I'll have to consider treating myself to some new kit. My phone's a Samsung A5 so maybe too "old" in the grand scheme of things? It's running Android 6.0 which compared to my old phone feels quick and new but I suppose in the grand scheme of things it really isn't?

Thank you Lougle, that's helpful for me too. Although I haven't seen any of the iOS9 projects, at least I can hope to stumble across one.

And yes, I was looking on Evirophon, and a few other places, last week and £150 seems about standard for the i7. I'm happy to pay that, as you say it will recoup very quickly. I'm hoping my Ap* pay next week will more than cover it. Speculate to accumulate

Hope you feel better as the day goes on Lougle

Thank you!

@ruralwanderer Android 6 will be ok, but you'll miss out on a lot of test case slots.

@Darkpassenger there is something in the security settings that prevents screen recording below iOS 11, so that's why you can't find a video recorder for your phone. It's a real pain. I sometimes borrow my DD's 2012 iPad to crash hunt, but I have to record it using my phone because you physically can't record using an app. Jail broken devices are banned on UTest for all but very specific cycles where they actually ask for a jail broken device, but they are rare and usually on the special projects board.

Some help with clickworker please. I am accumulating about a fivers worth of work but it wants my European sales tax identification number to process my invoice. What even is that?!

In the plus side my first cycle for uTest has been approved at €60!!

Would you advise doing the academy testing? Does it get you more work?

@MrsArchchancellorRidcully
A lot of people on here have put their National Insurance Number in that part.

Wow, @MrsArchchancellorRidcully, fab payout from UTest!

Morning all, checking in!
Had a manic weekend and didn't manage to get any work done. stayed off from work today and just fired up the laptop to get some B*ne hours in and see it's all gone for now - hopefully we'll get a link for part 3 soon.

Anyone else not at all surprised to see we still haven't had anything through to start B*nner?!

Hope you're all ok. Glad to see lots of you have managed to get a tonne of hours in on B*ne so far.

@Flube - going to make an attempt on LB now but not even sure it's worth the effort of logging in

No Bne tasks, no LB tasks, nothing from Bnner yet... no UHRS tasks - did all my housework and settled down to get some hours in and earn some pennies but there's nothing to do! typical

Ruralwanderer it was by accident tbh. I was invited to do a test for a comms app that had multiple cycles tests. I was totally naive and so went for one that paid a lot and took about two hrs. Ha!! It took me about 4-5 hours and was a very steep learning curve but I got there. Working out how to record and photograph bugs was hard but I got there.

Well done @MrsArchchancellorRidcully! If it's the one I'm thinking of, that was a really tricky one so you did well to persevere.

I've had a bug accepted as very valuable and 2 somewhat valuable bugs in the last day. I've got 40 bugs waiting to be valued, though.

I took the laptop back and said 'I need a refund...' then the chap started asking questions and I said 'I'm not looking to leave without a refund...'. I got a refund So I'll look for another one today.

Morning all! No work on B* yet I see. There is a lot on UTest but I can't be bothered as have two kids off sick and got another one coming home as she feels ill. I'm not feeling great myself. I think I'm going to have a day off. Do UTest stop inviting you to test cycles if you don't do them? I have a few but really don't feel like doing it at the moment.

Sorry you're not well @Catatemyhomework. They give you a slight uprating if you decline a cycle, but if you don't work on a cycle you accepted it hurts your rating. I don't think you get blacklisted, though. If you have accepted a cycle you could just plus 1 another bug if you can recreate it, so you've contributed to the cycle. Or just accept that you're not well - life happens. You could just write a note in the chat channel to say you're now not well.

@Lougle, thanks. It's a customer I always work on, despite the fact that they are rubbish! UTest disputed a bug for me which they rejected and I ended up getting very valuable. I am not keen and don't know why I accepted again. It is just a cycle and not a test case so I might just find one and submit that and call it a day.

@Lougle, thanks. It's a customer I always work on, despite the fact that they are rubbish! UTest disputed a bug for me which they rejected and I ended up getting very valuable. I am not keen and don't know why I accepted again. It is just a cycle and not a test case so I might just find one and submit that and call it a day.

Well that's frustrating, @rhij86. There wasn't any LB yesterday either.

Appen have finally responded to my repeated emails re F*r-TX. I am told that my 'work this' should finally work. Only took 2 months like.

@Lougle How much per hour would you say utest makes you? I know it isn't paid per hour but just wondering. Also is it hard make money sometimes cos other people find bugs first and they have to be original?

@toastytea it's really hard to say. The same bug can be viewed as either somewhat valuable, very valuable or exceptionally valuable, depending on customer priority. Sometimes it feels like all you get is rejection, then at other times a cycle can feel like a gift that keeps giving.

@Lougle thanks, I had no idea you could report the same bug as someone else. I thought you had to +1 it. I'm only involved in one test cycle currently and haven't completed the academy.

Toasty tea uTest will reject bugs already reported. You have to +1 them instead (and provide your own video/photo)

@MrsArchchancellorRidcully do you get paid for this though?

@toastytea no you absolutely can't submit the same bug as someone else, except for rare crash hunt cycles where they may accept 3 of the same issue, but even then you have to write your own report.

I was saying that I may submit a bug that is totally obvious to me, so I think it gets a somewhat valuable, but the client finds it exceptionally useful. Or vice versa.

You don't get paid for +1 but it does boost your rating.