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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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Why and How to effectively test beta distributions of R as a normal user?

This question is inspired by the remark of Duncan Murdoch on the r-devel mailing list in response to a bug report about Sweave : This is fixed in R-patched. (It would have been fixed in 2.12.0 if more people tested the betas...). Honestly,…
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How to enable automatic updates for alpha/beta testers at Google Play Store

I have configured the alpha/beta tests at the Google Play Store. New Google Group has been created for that purposes and required users were invited and joined the group. When new update is available users have to go by the alpha/beta link to…
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Does Google Play Store send "Beta App Update" notification to "Beta Testers"?

My question is little more specific to the question asked here My App is not yet published into production. We have published few beta versions of the app on Play Store. My question is Does Google Play Store send "Beta App Update" notification to…
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How to re-install production Android app without leaving the beta test?

I have a production version and a beta version of my app. I'm one of my beta testers. I want to rollback the version on my phone to the production version so that I can configure some settings then reinstall the beta to ensure the upgrade is working…
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How to get the number of beta users for a Google Play app

In this old question, we are advised to take action no longer available in the Google Play Developer Console. There is now a Download link that provides a zip file that includes a csv ending in `app_version', but since I have promoted the beta code…
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What tool do you use to manage beta testers for a web application?

Forgive me if this is in the wrong place, but I figured a few coders might have some thoughts on beta testing their code. I have written a web application that I am going to beta test with a small audience (10-20), and will eventually develop an…
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Test Flight Beta Testing: Xcode 6.3 Beta 4 does not show crashes

I'm focusing on the new Test Flight procedure. I developed an application (that I submitted through Xcode to the iTunes Connect portal) that crashes if a UIButton is tapped. Since, the application is available for Beta Testing to Internal Testers, I…
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maximum number of testers on google play alpha/beta testing

My app has not been released yet. What is the maximum number of alpha/beta testers I can have testing my app through Google Play? For iOS it's 1000 external testers per build. What's the Google Play limit?
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Google Play Beta: 'App not available for this account' message

Has anyone ran into an issue where all members of the Google Beta Group are able to get the beta version no problem except one. This one user -- who has a valid gmail address -- has joined the Google Grouped used for the beta testing. As the admin I…
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Publish beta version on Android market

I want to publish a beta version of some app of mine on the android market and face the problem that I cannot upload an app with the same package-name twice - not even with a different certificate. But having 2 package-names for release and beta…
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Best way to distribute Flutter application Android & iOS. Best Practices in Flutter Beta Distribution

How can I distribute my Flutter app (both Android & iOS) Beta build. I was going through with Crashlytics Beta Distribution. But I think there is some problem distributing Android & iOS app with same name or ids.
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LGE Nexus 5 in Google Play beta keeps crashing with NoClassDefFoundError - but which class is it?

Since several weeks I am trying to find out, why does a "LGE Nexus 5 (hammerhead), 2048MB RAM, Android 5.0" device keep reporting crashes with java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError caused by ClassNotFoundException in a Google Play beta app. My problem is…
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With TestFlight being replaced by iTunes Connect, what will happen to enterprise app beta testing?

I couldn't find anything about enterprise beta testing in the iTunes Connect Developer Guide so I hope this question doesn't seem too out of place here. Also, it says here that even the beta will be subject to a review. We are using private APIs so…
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Beta testing with internal testers for iOS 8

I'm having trouble with setting up a beta test with internal testers using iTunes Connect and TestFlight. I've added users as internal testers inside iTunes Connect, but how do I distribute the app to them? Inside Xcode I don't find any option for…
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How to beta test a WP7 app?

Is it possible to build an Ad Hoc build of our app and send it to our beta testers? Is this even possible?
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