Summer is heating up so is our velocity! Check out all of these great updates in our July release 🔥🥵
New Features
(1) Smart Tags: Completion Rate
We added our first platform smart tag: completion rate. Now you can apply this tag in your beta based on tester performance. Let’s say you want to send a thank you message to all of your testers who completed 100% of their tasks. Now you can do so dynamically using smart tags. More tags to come in future releases.
The Smart tags page, with a Task Completion category banding testers by how much of the beta they finished
(2) Slack Integration
Teams love Slack.. so do we! With our newest integration, you can map a beta in Stomio to a channel in Slack. Once you do so, all activities inside the beta (new tickets, new signups, task completed) are sent to slack as a notification with shortcuts to Stomio. You can choose whether you want to get the notification in slack instantly so you can stay on top of it. Or if you prefer a daily or a weekly digest.
The Slack setup page, mapping each beta to a channel and choosing how often notifications go out
(3) Mentions
Now you can mention users in a ticket and they will receive an email notification. This is especially handy when there is a public ticket!
Mentioning a teammate in a ticket comment
(4) Keyboard shortcuts for testers
For all of the keyboard warriors out there, we added keyboard shortcuts to navigate and complete tasks as fast as you can ⌨️
A step as a tester sees it, with the keys for answering and moving on shown beside the options
Improvements
(1) Step type change
Managers can change the step type after the beta is published if there is no feedback submitted on that step.
Changing a published step's type, which is allowed while no feedback has been submitted on it
(2) Steps expand/collapse all in task builder
Expand and collapse all steps in the flow builder in a single click. Simple.
The Expand all and Collapse all controls above a task's steps
(3) Tickets shortcut from results view
Clicking on a ticket in results directs you to the ticketing page.
Opening a ticket straight from the results page
(4) Autofocus inputs across the platform
We noticed better user engagement with text inputs if they are auto-focused (i.e. the user can start typing immediately). So we extended that feature to all inputs across the platform to improve usability.
The beta creation flow, with the description field focused and ready to type in
An open text step as a tester sees it, with the answer field already focused
(5) Tester beta cards
We overhauled the design of beta cards for testers so they better indicate where they are in the process. Let us know what you think!
The tester's beta cards, each showing its state and how far through the tasks they are
(6) Tester auto Email population
In our continuous effort to make life easy for testers, when a tester accepts an invitation by clicking on the invitation link, their email is automatically populated in the sign up page.
The sign up page with the tester's email already filled in from their invitation link
Bug Fixes
1- Fixed a bug related to announcements
2- Fixed a bug related to responsiveness in mobile view
3- Fixed an occasional bug when uploading a large size file