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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
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Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

An overview of testing


In a crowded and competitive app market, delivering applications that are not only high in quality but which address users' needs with minimal bugs, is imperative. This is where testing plays a pivotal role in determining whether your app gets a one-star or five-star rating when you eventually launch it on the App Store.

Beta distribution provides development and business teams with critical insights into:

  • Release Quality: As much as you test the code and app yourself, it can't ever be a substitute for putting the app in the hands of testers. Product owners, who are responsible for the vision of the product and who can get their hands on iterative beta releases, can discover quality issues, glitches, and quirks which can be ironed out with rapid feedback.
  • Idea Validation: Another aspect that the product owner can get greater insight on is the validation of hypotheses. While your app may be functioning the way you intended, has the overall idea been validated? What about...