Monday, August 16, 2010

The Big Picture on Testing an iPhone App

Provision the devices for testers
  1. Ask your testers to download the UDID Sender app from iTunes for free. Tap the Send button to add your email address.
  2. Log into your Provisional Portal account, create a provision profile for each UDID identifier that you received, which can then be downloaded to your computer. 
  3. Copy the provision profile file to the Organizer and email it to every tester with the instructions on installing it on the device.  Ask them to drill down to Settings>General>Profiles to verify the new expiration date.
Provision the iPhone application
  1. Log into your Provisional Portal account, create the provision profile under the Ad Hoc tab, and then download it to your computer.
  2. Copy the provision profile to the Organizer in the Xcode.
Email the files to your testers
  1. Email it to every tester with instructions to sync the .mobileprovision and .app files to his device from iTunes. Ask them to drill down to Settings>General>Profiles to verify the new expiration date and locate the app icon from the home screen.  However, a tester must remove any existing  files before downloading the new ones.
  2. Track the progress with your testers.
Links for developers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40154/how-do-you-beta-test-an-iphone-app

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