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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 UI testing


Next up, we will dive into UI testing, the reason being that snapshot (https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/tree/master/snapshot) leverages UI testing, and in particular UI testing scripts, in order to automate grabbing screenshots. While you won't be required to be an expert in this area, having an understanding of how snapshot works under the hood could be useful when you work with more advanced and customizable problems.

UI testing (https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/testing_with_xcode/chapters/09-ui_testing.html), or user-interface testing, is an Xcode tool that enables developers to automate the testing of the user interface in order to assert and validate the properties and states of the UI elements. This is accomplished via the use of UI recording, which, when run while Simulator is running your app, generates code based on the elements and sequences selected through Simulator.

With the code generated, you can...