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Category Archives: Beta Testing

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10 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid While Beta Testing

Beta TestingBy Sherief Abul-EzzSeptember 6, 2018

Although the practice of beta testing has been around for quite a while, it has only recently started to gain traction and popularity. With the emergence of SaaS tools that facilitate the beta testing process, beta testing has become easier than ever and its adoption as a practice is rapidly increasing. Due to their lack…

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Technical Beta Testing vs Marketing Beta Testing

Technical Beta Test vs. Marketing Beta Test: Why You Need Both

Beta TestingBy Sherief Abul-EzzSeptember 3, 2018

Before you start your beta test, you must understand the difference between technical and marketing beta tests to be able to plan your beta test accordingly. These two types of beta tests have completely different goals and requirements and if you do not take their needs into account it can seriously affect your beta test…

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beta test metrics

Beta Test Metrics You Need to Track

Beta TestingBy Sherief Abul-EzzAugust 29, 2018

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…

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beta testing costs

The Beta Testing Costs You Should Consider

Beta TestingBy Sherief Abul-EzzAugust 27, 2018

Beta testing is a low-cost tactic for squashing bugs and getting early feedback from your users to help you avoid costly errors before releasing your app. In Clutch’s 2017 survey about the costs of developing an app, 32% of app development companies reported that the “testing and deployment” stage cost less than $5000. Naturally, the…

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beta launch

Checklist for Launching Your App in Beta

Beta TestingBy Sherief Abul-EzzApril 25, 2018

Before launching your app in beta, you need to make sure you are ready for the road ahead. You only get one chance to launch, and a few missed details can potentially ruin your beta test’s success. In this post, we have compiled a checklist of everything you need to have ready before announcing your beta…

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beta testing community

How to Build a Beta Testing Community from Your Existing Users

Beta TestingBy Sherief Abul-EzzApril 18, 2018

One of the challenges you will encounter when planning your beta test is finding the right testers for your app. Finding and recruiting a beta testing community of willing testers who also fall under your product’s target market is sometimes tricky. This is an easier challenge to overcome if your app is already on the…

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user feedback loop

How to Maximize Engagement by Keeping Your Beta Testers in the Loop

Beta TestingBy Sherief Abul-EzzMarch 18, 2018

How to keep beta testers engaged is a very common challenge facing app developers and product managers. If you’ve conducted a beta test for your app, you’ve probably seen how testers’ activity tends to fizzle out quickly. More often than not, this is caused by a lack of adequate response to user feedback. Failing to…

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Beta Testing in Big vs. Medium vs. Small Companies

Beta TestingBy Sherief Abul-EzzMarch 6, 2018

One of the biggest challenges of beta testing is that there are no established standard processes. The main reason for this lack of standard procedure is that optimal beta testing processes tend to vary wildly with differing scenarios. At Instabug, we have helped hundreds of companies shape their beta testing programs. Today we will take…

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Instabug and Beta Family Join Forces to Super Charge Beta Testing

Beta TestingBy Yasmine HelmyFebruary 28, 2018

We have been working for quite some time on collaborating with the best partners out there to help companies build better apps. We’re proud to announce that Instabug is officially collaborating with Beta Family to help companies find and engage with more than 80,000 testers from all over the world and provide them with an…

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Dogfooding

Dogfooding: Conducting an Internal Beta Test for Your App

Beta TestingBy Sherief Abul-EzzFebruary 12, 2018

Although the term only started to appear around the 1980s, “dogfooding” has rapidly risen to “best practice” status. Its adoption and praise of dogfooding by small teams to tech giants like Google and Amazon prove that it is more than a buzzword. Finding external testers that are responsive and deliver quality feedback is an industry-wide challenge…

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Beta Program Manager

Introducing the Beta Program Manager Role for Mobile Apps

Beta TestingBy Sherief Abul-EzzFebruary 9, 2018

Taking care of goal setting, coordination, and collecting and acting on user feedback, a beta test manager is what stands between a successful beta test and a waste of time and resources. Beta tests are full-blown projects in their own right and they deserve to be treated as such. A common mistake companies make is to…

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ideal bug report

How to Get Your App Testers to Submit the Ideal Bug Report

Beta TestingBy Sherief Abul-EzzJanuary 15, 2018

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…

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