Beta testing is the cornerstone of Customer Validation and a great place to start if you’re new to this type of testing. Our ebooks, kits, and whitepapers cover the entire customer testing process and will help you get better feedback and then do more with it.
Explore the modern approach for beta testing, along with industry use cases from two decades of helping hundreds of companies bring thousands of perfected products to market.
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Driving Revenue and Cutting Costs with Beta and Delta Testing
This report shows how leading technology companies are decreasing costs and increasing beta program ROI with Centercode.
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The Impact of Pre-Release Product Testing on Star Ratings
This report shows how pre-release testing keeps even small product issues from having a big impact on customer experiences and your star ratings.
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What You Need to Know: Beta Test Management
Slay your next beta test with a start-to-finish approach for the process, from recruiting testers to knocking your project goals out of the park.
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Understanding Tester Engagement Through Metrics
Drive measurable, data-driven improvements to your customer test’s bottom line with this simple worksheet for tracking tester engagement.
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Tester Engagement Pocket Map
Explore the causes of low test participation and improve the quality and quantity of your customer feedback with this pocket map for increasing tester engagement.
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Customer Validation Industry Report 2020
The latest report shows how processes and tools are influencing the tactics, time investments, and overall success of today’s CV programs.
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Consumer Insights on the Subscription Services Market
Get an in-depth look at consumer attitudes toward subscription services like Disney+ and Spotify, and discover what’s influencing adoption.
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Building Surveys for Customer Validation
This step-by-step guide shares survey building strategies and examples for securing clean, readily useful data on your customers’ attitudes.
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The Product Manager’s Guide to Understanding Customers
Not all customer feedback is created equal. This guide shares how to use each type of feedback at the right time to drive smart product decisions.
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Consumer Insights from Over 7,000 Connected Product Users
The report explores consumer attitudes about connected products. See where the market stands, and get practical tips for audience growth.
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Delta Testing 101
Learn practical techniques for post-launch continuous customer testing within an agile environment. This whitepaper contains basic principles for rapid, ongoing feedback collection.
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Customer Validation: A Visual Workshop
This infographic will help you tackle the common challenges of customer testing and explore modern techniques for process improvement.
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Software Testing in the Age of Iterative Development
Find out how today’s software development teams are grappling with faster release cycles and limited resources in this infographic.
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Customer Validation in 20 Minutes
Are your beta testing tactics stuck in the 90s? This ebook gives a quick overview of CV and how it’s supporting modern-day development styles and moving technology products forward.
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Mobile App Beta Test Planning Kit
Create an airtight test plan and conquer common testing challenges. This kit contains a useful, easy-to-follow template and planning tips for mobile app Beta Testing.
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Customer Validation Industry Report 2019
Explore the tools and processes that are propelling Customer Validation programs into 2019. Get an in-depth industry trends analysis in this report.
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Software Beta Test Planning Kit
Unify your stakeholders behind a thorough, well-organized test plan with practical tools and best practices in our comprehensive kit.
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Hardware Beta Test Planning Kit
Bring practical test planning and execution techniques to your hardware test with the best practices and tools in this all-in-one kit.
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Essential Tips for Dogfooding Success
Collect higher quality feedback from your dogfooding program with these vital tips. Get both employees and executives involved and contributing to your employee Beta Tests.
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Beta Tester Recruitment Kit
Use these best practices and templates to attract quality testers and speed up the recruitment period. You’ll learn a proven process for finding enthusiastic beta testers from your target market.
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Beta Testing Industry Survey Report
This report dives into the industry trends of collecting and using customer feedback before product release. It looks at the challenges companies face and the value they see in Beta Testing.
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Implementing Feedback Scoring
Prioritizing your feedback is one of the most challenging and time-consuming tasks a beta manager faces. See how our Feedback Scoring features identify your most impactful feedback.
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The Beta Shipping Manual
This whitepaper teaches you how to effectively manage inventory, ship units (domestically and internationally), and handle returns for even your biggest, most ambitious hardware tests.
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The Feedback Playbook
This whitepaper teaches you how to successfully use bug reports, surveys, feature requests, and other feedback types to collect and manage high-quality feedback during a Beta Test.
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Beta Test Incentives Kit
This kit includes a comprehensive whitepaper and calculator to help you build a strategy to both incentivize and reward your beta testers for all the hard work they put into your beta program.
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Beta Test Management Glossary
This glossary covers all of the common terms used throughout the Beta Testing process, and will enable your team to use a clear and common lexicon during your Beta Test.
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Public Beta Tests as a Launch Tool
This whitepaper addresses how public Beta Tests fit into the product development process, helping you decide whether a public Beta makes sense for your product launch strategy.
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The Real Role of Beta in Product Management
This eBook reveals the role Beta Testing (Customer Validation) plays in product management and how product managers can use it to connect with their customers and reach their goals.
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Keeping Beta Tests Confidential
This eBook takes a comprehensive look at pre-release Customer Validation security. It covers why companies fear leaks, how to prevent them, and how to manage them if they happen.
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Beta Test ROI Kit
This kit includes everything you need to build an ROI model for an individual beta project or comprehensive beta program, including a complete spreadsheet, whitepaper, and a video tour.
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Getting Ready for Beta Testing
This free whitepaper offers tips and best practices for preparing your product, team, and testers to hit the ground running on your Beta Test with maximum effectiveness.
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100 Tips for Better Beta Tests
This free eBook is a compilation of Beta Testing best practices from our own experience, plus contributions from great companies like Adobe, Autodesk, Avid, Tivo, Symantec, and UPS.
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Beta Test Agreement Kit
Need beta agreements before you can start testing? Centercode has you covered. This free kit provides sample agreements as well as an explanatory companion document.
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Reaching 90% Beta Participation
This free eBook from Centercode outlines 12 essential Beta Testing best practices that our team relies on every day to attain a 90% participation rate from our beta testers.
