A List of Popular Beta Testing Tools for Mobile Application Development

In the case of mobile application development process, both Beta testing and Alpha testing are important. With the help of a stringent testing method, ensuring app performance, quality, security, stability along with reliability becomes easier. GetAProgrammer is a Sydney-based mobile app development company that is quite popular in the market for devising feature-rich and user-centric mobile apps for both iOS and Android platform. Starting from app development to app testing related issues, for any kind of support or consultation, you can always contact the highly efficient team of this company.

What are the Benefits of Beta Testing?

Wondering what is Beta testing and how can it help your mobile app to be successful? Well, in the case of beta testing, the app is given to a specific end users’ group for a certain time period. The users are asked to use the app and are asked to give feedback based on the app experience. Depending on the feedback this group gives, the mobile app is updated and released on the market. Here is a list of the factors that get improved after doing beta testing of the mobile application.

• Usability
• Performance
• Quality
• Marketing

Trending Beta Testing Tools for Mobile Apps

#1 UberTesters - This tool is cloud-based. UberTesters not only supports popular platforms like iOS and Android but it supports Appcelerator, PhoneGap and Xamarin as well. This efficient tool provides three different types of testers such as Usability testing, Localisation testing and Functional testing. Moreover, it provides the facility of video recording, a tool for bug submission, SDK auto-insertion along with a toolkit for device management.

#2 TestFairy - On this tool, you can test apps devised on diverse platforms like Android, iOS, Unity, Xamarin, PhoneGap, Adobe Air and Appcelerator. With help of this tool, you would be able to understand which functionalities have been widely used by the clients and which functionalities have not been tried at all! This comprehensive report would help you to improve the app quality and the quality of functionalities if needed. More interestingly, TestFairy doesn’t need any code changes or SDK while performing the testing.

#3 Hockey App - Apart from iOS and Android, apps developed on different platforms like Cordova, MacOS, Xamarin, React Native, Unity etc. can be tested on this testing tool. Different bug tracking tools like Pivotal Tracker, Lighthouse, Mantis, GitHub etc. are integrated with this Hockey App.

Apart from all these aforementioned beta testing tools, UTest/ Applause and Crashlytics are also quite popular names in this sector.