Show HN: Testelf - black box testing for iOS

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OP here. I started Testelf a year ago to make testing easier for mobile development teams. Many of our early adopters came from HN and we wouldn't have gotten this far without the support from this community. Thanks everyone!

While cloud services have made product development faster and easier, testing is still a bottleneck. Black box testing is essential in ensuring major issues are caught before an app reaches the end user. Testelf currently provides black box testing for iOS. My goal is to build a testing service that's not only affordable, but also very easy to use. We charge a flat price ($200) per test, have a two-day turnaround, require no documentation or spec from users, and provide a very comprehensive test report.

We launched a private beta with 30 companies around five months ago and have received very good feedback. Today, we are opening up the service to everyone. While we are iOS only for now, we are planning to add Android and Mac app testing in the near future.

Testelf has been my answer to testing. I love this service and highly recommend it to everyone.

We've been a happy paying Testelf customer since I first learned about it on HN several months ago. We save so much time by just sending over our beta builds without having to write exhaustive test cases, and we've gotten back extremely thorough reports. Since the initial mvp they've added awesome features like animated gifs of complex repro steps and full crash logs for crashing bugs. It's not a drop-in replacement for unit testing + customer beta testing, but it's a quick and inexpensive addition to any QA process. I recommend this to every iOS developer I know, it's seriously awesome.

Testelf is fantastic to use.

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