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Continuous Delivery for Mobile with fastlane

By : Doron Katz
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Continuous Delivery for Mobile with fastlane

By: Doron Katz

Overview of this book

Competitive mobile apps depend strongly on the development team’s ability to deliver successful releases, consistently and often. Although continuous integration took a more mainstream priority among the development industry, companies are starting to realize the importance of continuity beyond integration and testing. This book starts off with a brief introduction to fastlane—a robust command-line tool that enables iOS and Android developers to automate their releasing workflow. The book then explores and guides you through all of its features and utilities; it provides the reader a comprehensive understanding of the tool and how to implement them. Themes include setting up and managing your certificates and provisioning and push notification profiles; automating the creation of apps and managing the app metadata on iTunes Connect and the Apple Developer Portal; and building, distributing and publishing your apps to the App Store. You will also learn how to automate the generation of localized screenshots and mesh your continuous delivery workflow into a continuous integration workflow for a more robust setup. By the end of the book, you will gain substantial knowledge on delivering bug free, developer-independent, and stable application release cycle.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
www.PacktPub.com
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. Distribute to Testers with TestFlight and Crashlytics

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 as part of your workflow working.

The following skills will be learned in this chapter. We will be working...