Live test found in the wild

Oct 24, 2025

Create Memory
Mobile phone screenshot of an app to monitor solar power generation. Greyed out is the app with battery charge status, a diagram with where the power is coming and going from, and a menu at the bottom. Highlighted in a call to action pop up box with a title of test. The body has test multi-cta.

I had solar panels installed this week (October 2025) and had to download an app. What was the very first thing I saw? A test for having multiple call to actions displayed. We can only guess if they don't have a test environment, or they used live and forgot to remove it after. Or even, live testing was happening while I was on the app? Who knows.

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