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…
With 15 million monthly active users, 70% of whom are in the coveted market of 13-24 year olds, Canadian company Kik is valued at $1 billion. Nearly a decade since it was founded, Kik is now taking bigger, more creative risks. Over the past year, Kik has pivoted from focusing solely on its well-known messenger…
When you’re testing your mobile app or even if it’s in production and you want your users to submit feedback, the first thing you’ll need to do is create a user feedback or bug report template. Having a bug report template allows you to maintain a standardized format for user feedback and bug reports submitted…
Founded by a former Google and Twitter engineer and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Envoy aims to digitize office management. Its first and core product is Envoy Visitors, an iPad app that streamlines registration. The app handles everything from guest badges to NDAs and is used by the likes of Airbnb, GoPro, and Yelp. The San Francisco-based team…
Many beta testers and end users don’t know how to write a bug report that includes the details a developer needs to know in order to fix it. If you’re a developer trying to sort out the reports you receive, you know there is more to reporting a bug than simply announcing that the app…
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…
Using a Jira bug reporting tool helps developers and their teams record and track the status of bugs in their apps from start to finish. You can add a bug description, attachments, identify the affected versions, assign them to the right members to fix, and assign severity levels, all while having a single overview of…
If you’re serious about your app’s success, then integrating an in-app user feedback tool to collect bug reports and communicate with your beta testers is a no-brainer. The beta testing stage can either be the worst and messiest part of finally shipping your project, or you can automate and optimize it. After all, you didn’t…
When you’re developing an app and you have limited time and resources, the beta testing phase is usually a tough one. You want your app to be as perfect as possible and executed in the most efficient way to release it as fast as possible. Beta testing is usually a tricky part of the development…