Introduction and Review

Ranked 1st place in the application list of Developer Tools on the App Store, TestFlight has so far received an average rating score of 4.8 stars out of 5 together with 3.8k ratings. The app is free of charge so everyone can install the app on their mobile devices. As an application testing tool, TestFlight will offer developers useful suggestions based on the testing result so as to get the developers better prepared before launching their apps on the App Store. To invite testers, developers can send them personal emails or a public link. When users are ready to test a beta app, Apple will record all the crash logs and details of the usage history together with your feedback and submit them to the developers. Based on that feedback, developers of the app may or may not adjust and update their app performance by making improvements and fixing bugs. If you want to learn more about the installment and the testing procedures, please visit the TestFlight website. Some users think that the restriction in the age range does not make that much sense because it also needs to meet the age requirement of each app. Also, some feedback from users is never taken seriously by the developers, which appears disappointing for the testers and users to spend so much time giving the apps valuable feedback and suggestions. To sum up, TestFlight is a useful and reliable application for the reference of app developers to make their apps better. The testing procedures are not that complicated and testers can finish the testing on their mobile devices and send the feedback to the developers efficiently. However, the developers should take users’ feedback more seriously and appreciate their help instead of neglecting their requirements. After all, it saves developers a lot of time to test the bugs by themselves. Therefore, TestFlight is strongly recommended to developers to improve their apps as well as users to get their opinions heard. However, to make the app really work, the developers should start to take the user's as well as testers’ advice seriously, or else it will just repetitively fail the expectations of its users.

Updates

The version history of TestFlight is concise in its description of each update and suggests that the app has been updated on a monthly basis. On September 26th, 2022, version 3.2.2 was launched with improvements in the app stability and fixes of bugs. On November 14th, 2022, version 3.2.3 was launched with the same description regarding the details of the update. The most recent update was on February 14th, 2023 with the launch of version 3.2.4. No further information regarding the improvements and bugs was mentioned during that update either.

Features

1. Ranked 1st in the ranking list of developer tools, TestFlight is a great assistant to help developers to improve their app performance.

2. The app requires no fee for users to install the app on their digital devices.

3. Developers will receive valuable suggestions right from the users and fix the bugs according to the feedback of users.

4. Users can directly conduct testing of the targeted app on TestFlight and get their opinions heard.

5. Developers can simply send links or emails to the testers to operate the test.

6. All the crash logs and usage details will be recorded during the testing process.

7. It saves developers the budget to collect users’ feedback and crash logs with the use of TestFlight.

8. Users no longer need to bother to leave comments on the app store platforms to let the developers notice the problems. Instead, they can personally send suggestions to the developers.