Beta testing is a low-cost tactic for squashing bugs and getting early feedback from your users to help you avoid costly errors before releasing your app. In Clutch’s 2017 survey about the costs of developing an app, 32% of app development companies reported that the “testing and deployment” stage cost less than $5000. Naturally, the…
There is no one perfect beta test management tool, with each having its own functionality and pros and cons. Some focus on build distribution, while others specialize in feedback collection and issue reporting. Below, we go through the most important features that you need to consider when selecting the best beta test management tools for…
Beta testing is a critical stage in the software development lifecycle. It helps refine your mobile app quality and improve its user experience, among many other things, which is why it’s crucial to integrate a third-party iOS beta testing tool for bug and crash reporting and to collect user feedback. Beta testing saves time, money,…
Beta testing is a critical stage in the software development lifecycle. It helps refine your mobile app quality and improve its user experience, among many other things, which is why it’s crucial to integrate a third-party Android beta testing tool for bug and crash reporting and to collect user feedback. Beta testing saves time, money,…
Before launching your app in beta, you need to make sure you are ready for the road ahead. You only get one chance to launch, and a few missed details can potentially ruin your beta test’s success. In this post, we have compiled a checklist of everything you need to have ready before announcing your beta…
One of the challenges you will encounter when planning your beta test is finding the right testers for your app. Finding and recruiting a beta testing community of willing testers who also fall under your product’s target market is sometimes tricky. This is an easier challenge to overcome if your app is already on the…
How to keep beta testers engaged is a very common challenge facing app developers and product managers. If you’ve conducted a beta test for your app, you’ve probably seen how testers’ activity tends to fizzle out quickly. More often than not, this is caused by a lack of adequate response to user feedback. Failing to…
One of the biggest challenges of beta testing is that there are no established standard processes. The main reason for this lack of standard procedure is that optimal beta testing processes tend to vary wildly with differing scenarios. At Instabug, we have helped hundreds of companies shape their beta testing programs. Today we will take…
We have been working for quite some time on collaborating with the best partners out there to help companies build better apps. We’re proud to announce that Instabug is officially collaborating with Beta Family to help companies find and engage with more than 80,000 testers from all over the world and provide them with an…
Although the term only started to appear around the 1980s, “dogfooding” has rapidly risen to “best practice” status. Its adoption and praise of dogfooding by small teams to tech giants like Google and Amazon prove that it is more than a buzzword. Finding external testers that are responsive and deliver quality feedback is an industry-wide challenge…
Taking care of goal setting, coordination, and collecting and acting on user feedback, a beta test manager is what stands between a successful beta test and a waste of time and resources. Beta tests are full-blown projects in their own right and they deserve to be treated as such. A common mistake companies make is to…
Bug reports are crucial for developers to find out where their code goes wrong or behaves in unexpected ways, but getting your testers to submit clear, informative, and actionable reports can certainly be a challenge. Whether you are beta testing your app or on a production release, standardizing and streamlining this process for your testers…