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500 test interviews. Done before lunch.

Max tried to click them by hand and got to three. SurveyTester runs hundreds of survey bots at the same time, across every language, market and device, and emails you when they are done.

Why clicking does not scale

One manual test interview takes as long as one real interview. Multiply it by languages, markets, devices and quota cells, and the test plan no longer fits into the week before fieldwork.

Time

Ten minutes per interview, ten interviews per cell, eight cells, three languages: that is a week of clicking for one person.

Attention

By the fortieth run, a tester stops reading. The broken piped text on page 12 looks just like it did on run 39.

Coverage

Under time pressure, the mobile version, the third language and the small market are the first to be skipped.

How SurveyTester runs 500 interviews

  1. 1

    Describe who answers

    Test cases with exact answers, answer patterns in percent or number ranges, or a respondent described in plain language that AI turns into answers. AI personas answer open questions in their own style and can drop out, skip attention checks and take realistic time.

    Test case editor with a respondent described in plain language and AI-generated answers
  2. 2

    Set the volume and press start

    Choose the number of runs per language, market and test case, desktop or mobile. The bots run in parallel and SurveyTester sends an email when the job is done.

    Bot job setup with languages, markets, test cases and number of runs
  3. 3

    Review results, not clicks

    Every run with its outcome, every page with a screenshot per device, and the findings of 29 automatic checks: error messages, unresolved piped text, missing images, spelling, wrong language and more. Runs that loop or get stuck are flagged.

    Finished bot job with outcome summary and issues from the automatic checks
1,000bots tested running at the same time
29automatic checks on every page
1 clickto replay any run with identical answers

Questions teams ask

How many bots can run at the same time?

Concurrency is set per company and depends on the plan. SurveyTester has been tested with up to 1,000 bots running at once.

Do the bots answer like real respondents?

They can. Besides fixed answers, the AI answer modes give each bot a persona with demographics, an open-text style, dropout and inattention rates and realistic delays.

What do I get at the end?

Every run with its outcome and screenshots, the issues found by the automatic checks, and a Word Quality Management Report per test run.

Let the bots click. You go to lunch.

Try it on one of your own surveys, or let us run it for you.

Three ways to start. Pick the one that fits your week.

Some teams want to click around on their own. Some want a guide at their side. Some just want to know whether their survey is fine. All three are free, and none of them commits you to the others.

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