This chapter is all about distributing your app to testers and integrating beta-testing distribution into your fastlane workflow. Beta testing is the process of getting your app to testers before releasing your app publicly. Whether they are testers within the walls of your company or nominated external testers, testing plays a crucial role in the development cycle of products, from quality control to discovering bugs, a final check prior to your app being in the public's eyes and hands.
The objectives of this chapter are to learn how to manage and distribute to beta testers in iOS and to illustrate which tools are the most prominent. This chapter will also discuss how to manage and onboard your test users.
Finally, you will learn how developers like you can automate the processes by integrating the lane into your Fastfile...
