"Test Flight " - Apple's magical beta tester

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Test Flight is one major feature available for Apple developers . It is currently owned by the Apple Inc. and is only available for developers within the iOS developer program. Developers  after signing in with the apple developer account can distribute their app for testing to internal as well as external testers before it goes up on the Apple App store . Test Flight includes some other significant features such as Crash reporting , Logging and Tester feedbacks.  With the latest release of TestFlight , developers can invite up to 25 internal testers and 10,000 external testers

TestFlight was found by Benjamin Satterfield and Trystan Kosmynka back in December 2010 . Initially it was introduced as a single platform for beta testing of mobile applications which runs on both Android and iOS devices. 

What actually makes Test Flight special ? Once a tester has installed and beta tested a certain application through Test Flight , a notification will be pushed every time a new feature is available to focus on and also when a new build is released . 

Test Flight also includes this magical feature which enables the testers to go through multiple builds given for  iOS apps, watchOS apps , tvOS apps and iMessage apps at the very same time . 

In my perspective , Test Flight was one noteworthy effort of Apple Inc. to compete against  Google's developer console . Test Flight has once been the "to go" software for mobile application testing  but since the day it dropped Android doubling down , some developers were left with no alternative at one point .

On a concluding note , it can be stated that Test Flight has actually scrolled well in testing but now with its unavailability  for the Android OS , developers have reached out to other choices such as "Test Fairy " , "Apphance" and "HockeyApp". 




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