When you update your mobile app, it shows your users that you care about improving the quality of their experience. But pushing your new versions to the app stores isn’t the end of the update process—it’s the beginning. There’s more to do in order to maximize the impact of your update. These tips will bring…
When it comes to setting up an effective bug reporting workflow, all apps have different requirements for each stage in the development lifecycle. At Instabug, we recognize that and try to accommodate the needs of apps in different stages of development. Customizing Instabug’s SDK allows you to unlock its full potential and adopt a streamlined…
More clarity for your users and less manual work for you This is the solution to your pile of unsorted reports. With Nested Report Categories, your customers can specify exactly what their feedback is about in just a couple of taps. This results in faster and easier triaging for you — your reports get…
An easier way to manage your user conversations We analyzed our users’ chat workflows and found that most of you don’t like having to switch back and forth between two tabs to access user conversations. Last year, we redesigned the experience of managing user conversations starting with re-ordering the bugs list and adding chat…
A simpler experience for improved readability and masked views for user privacy In order to make our Repro Steps feature more useful for app developers and mobile product managers, as well as to give app users more control over their data, we’ve redesigned the Repro Steps experience in your dashboard as well as in…
Ever since its inception in the 1980s, the practice of dogfooding has been steadily gaining in popularity. Today, it is no longer an obscure strategy used only by the most progressive companies and we can find many examples of dogfooding across industries. Dogfooding is not a silver bullet and is certainly not a replacement for…
When it comes to setting up an effective bug reporting workflow, apps have different requirements for each stage in the development lifecycle. In this post, we will take a look at some of the best practices for using Instabug in your production app to maximize efficiency, minimize your workload, and provide the best experience for…
Ever since TestFlight was acquired by Apple back in 2014, they have been constantly iterating on the tool and steadily improving its performance and capabilities. Today, TestFlight has become not just the go-to tool for iOS beta build distribution, but practically the only tool that can do the job well. While TestFlight and Instabug share…
Beta tests sometimes seem like complex affairs, but in reality, they are quite simple and can be done for little to no cost. In fact, beta testing is considered a low-cost tactic to test your app and collect user feedback. The word “free” often translates into more work and time, and you will need to…
Beta testing is well known as a way to weed out the bugs and crashes that are still hiding in your code. The benefits of beta testing as a marketing tool have also started to get more attention recently, with many examples of apps that used beta tests to drive wide adoption. But beta testing…
Bug reporting is a vital a part of any mobile app development process and yet it is still a confusing process that many developers spend a lot of time, money and energy trying to perfect and yet can easily be managed by following some mobile app bug reporting best practices. We’ve gathered below some mobile…
Tracking the right metrics enables you to monitor the progress of your beta test and steer it towards success. After the test is completed, analyzing the data you collect from it unlocks further insights that you can use to improve future iterations of your app and its beta test. Besides the KPIs and metrics you…