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A test for a computer product prior to commercial release.

Beta testing is the last stage of testing, and normally can involve sending the product to beta test sites outside the company for real-world exposure or offering the product for a free trial download over the Internet. Beta testing is often preceded by a round of testing called alpha testing.

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How do you beta test an iphone app?

How can you beta test an iPhone app? I can get it on my own device, and anyone that gives me a device, I can run it on theirs, but is there a way to do a limited release via the app store for beta testing? Related: Also, see this question on…
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How does TestFlight do it?

TestFlight offers over-the-air beta distribution of iOS apps (on non-jailbroken devices). How can this be done? Is this an iOS feature, or a vulnerability exploit?
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Need some clarification about beta/alpha testing on the developer console

Background The Android developer console has 3 tabs for publishing the app's apk file: alpha, beta and production, as shown here: as I recall from one of Google IO lectures, one cool way to check how good is your app before making a 100% scale…
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TestFight beta testing for internal testers - Build state is "processing"

I've been using TestFlight for a while but this is the first time I'm submitting a build for beta testing directly from iTunesConnect since Apple bought TestFlight itself. I've been experiencing a weird behaviour (or maybe just the Apple's expected…
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TestFlight: Complete test information is required to submit a build for external testing

My app is in internal testing on iTunes Connect, but I cannot promote it to external testing. It tells me that the test information is incomplete. I have tried all sorts of things, including reading this doc and this doc on Apple and re-entering…
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Beta testing: App not appearing in Play Store Beta tab

I have been trying for several weeks now to get the Google Alpha / Beta testing functionality on the Play Store to work with no success. As far as I can tell I have followed the process but clearly something is not working from my side. I hope…
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google play alpha and beta tester function

I have a question regarding the new Play Developer Console functions (Alpha & Beta Testing) , maybe somebody has some experience with it. I invited some testers by GoogleGroups and they are receiving the invitation and can accept it. I want to test…
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Delete Beta users lists in Android Developer Console

I have some apps published in my android developer account. Some of them are released as closed Beta, where I use lists of users to give them use permissions. Now I have some lists that are old and I don't need them anymore. The question is: how…
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The app couldn't be installed because developer certificate is no longer valid

I have invited one TestFlight user from iTunes to test my app. The app is currently under review status. When that user tried to install the app, at the time of launching in iTunes, it throws the following error : Could not install XXXX. The app…
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iOS TestFlight - External tester email addresses

When adding email addresses for external testers in TestFlight, does the email address of the tester have to be their registered Apple ID? Or can it be any email address they can access on their iOS device?
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Disable beta testing Android

About one month ago i upload my first App to the PlayStore and I reserved it only for beta testers. The App is now stable and I decide to move it from beta to production tab. My question is: How can I disable App beta tester so they can rate my…
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Unpublish and app in Google Play for non beta testers only

I already have an app published in Google Play, and now I would like to unpublish it for anyone but a set of known beta testers. My problem is that if I unpublish it, it seems it also gets unpublished for beta testers (since the beta testers feature…
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How to check if app user is in Google Play Beta Testing

I understand that the Google Play Beta feature allows me to distribute APKs to a closed user group, but I also need to be able to verify if the people logging in after download using Google Login are also in the beta program of my app, in order to…
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Cannot come out from the play store internal beta testing

We have uploaded an update of our existing app (WASFAT) as internal testing build. We can access it successfully. Now I want to leave from the internal testing and want to access the live build. There is not leave button the playstore wasfat page.…
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Is it possible to submit a new testflight version while another version is in the review queue?

An app I'm working on has version 1.0.1 in waiting for review. We submitted a build of version 1.0.2 using application loader with the intent of making it available as a prerelease build for testers while 1.0.1 is in the queue. An hour or two later…
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