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TestFlight
Original author(s)Benjamin Satterfield
Trystan Kosmynka
Developer(s)Apple Inc.
Stable release
3.3.0 / March 9, 2023;15 months ago(2023-03-09)[1]
Operating system
Available in33 languages[1]
List of languages
English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
TypeApplication testing service
LicenseFreeware
Websitedeveloper.apple/testflight/

TestFlightis an online service forover-the-airinstallationand testing ofmobile applications,currently owned byApple Inc.and only offered to developers within theiOSDeveloper Program.[2][3][4]Developers sign up with the service to distribute applications to internal or externalbeta testers,who can subsequently send feedback about the application to developers.[4][5][6]The TestFlight SDK additionally allows developers to receive remote logs, crash reports and tester feedback.[7]

TestFlight initially supported testing ofAndroidandiOSapplications, but since March 2014, Apple has retracted support for Android.[8][9]As of 2015, applications must be published for TestFlight usingXcode,and testers must be invited usingiTunes Connect.[4]

Developers can also provide a TestFlight invitation code to testers via email or a web page.[10]When the link is opened on an iPhone with the TestFlight app installed, a tester can directly install the beta app on their device. Developers can build beta tester groups directly using the App Store and Xcode integration and publicize these invitation links.

After invitation, up to 100 internal testers (with up to 30 devices each) and 10,000[11]externalbeta testerscan download and test the application build. Up to 100 apps can be tested at a time, internally or externally. Testers may be grouped and separate builds created for each group. The TestFlight application for iOS notifies testers when new builds are available, features to focus on, and enables sending of feedback.[4]

History[edit]

TestFlight was founded by Benjamin Satterfield and Trystan Kosmynka on December 23, 2010, and was designed as a single platform to test mobile applications onAndroidandiOSdevices.[12]It was acquired by Burstly in March 2012, and thereby gained the resources necessary to launchTestFlight Live.[12]

In 2011, Burstly raised $7.3 million fromUpfront Ventures,Rincon Venture Partners,Softbank Capitaland others.[9]Apple Inc.acquired Burstly in February 2014, and terminated support for Android as of March 2014.[8][9]Apple also shut downFlightPath(a mobile analytics solution and a replacement toTestFlight Live) andSkyRocket(a mobile application monetization platform) the same month.[9][13]

On 17 December 2023, several terabytes of pre-release iOS apps were discovered on theWayback Machine,having been mirrored from 2012 to 2015 when TestFlight's servers had mistakenly made them publicly accessible. It was dubbed the "Teraleak" or "Terascrape", similar to Nintendo'sGigaleakfrom 3 years prior.[14] This content was later removed from theInternet Archiveon January 4, 2024.[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ab"TestFlight on the App Store".App Store.March 9, 2023.RetrievedApril 3,2023.
  2. ^Turner, James (December 12, 2011).Developing Enterprise iOS Applications: iPhone and iPad Apps for Companies and Organizations."O'Reilly Media, Inc.".ISBN978-1-4493-2583-1.
  3. ^Yeung, Ken (February 21, 2014)."Apple confirms that it has acquired TestFlight creator Burstly".The Next Web.
  4. ^abcd"TestFlight".Apple Developer.RetrievedApril 3,2023.
  5. ^Esposito, Dino (May 14, 2012).Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise.Microsoft Press.ISBN978-0-7356-7336-6.
  6. ^Manning, Jonathon; Buttfield-Addison, Paris; Nugent, Tim (December 10, 2014).Swift Development with Cocoa: Developing for the Mac and IOS App Stores."O'Reilly Media, Inc.".ISBN978-1-4919-0970-6.
  7. ^Murray, Jeff W. (July 26, 2012).Game Development for iOS with Unity3D.CRC Press.ISBN978-1-4398-9220-6.
  8. ^abGarun, Natt (January 26, 2015)."Apple to close the old standalone TestFlight beta testing service next month".The Next Web.
  9. ^abcdPerez, Sarah; Lawler, Ryan; Etherington, Darrell (February 21, 2014)."TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple".TechCrunch.AOL.
  10. ^Jain, Ashutosh (June 27, 2019)."TestFlight App | 65+ Redeem Invitation Codes [2022 List]".Tiny Quip.RetrievedDecember 3,2022.
  11. ^Miller, Chance (July 31, 2017)."Apple expands TestFlight tester limit to 10,000 users".9to5Mac.RetrievedSeptember 15,2017.
  12. ^abConstine, Josh (March 5, 2012)."Why Did TestFlight Sell To Burstly?" We Couldn't Change The App Ecosystem Alone "".TechCrunch.AOL.
  13. ^Lunden, Ingrid (March 13, 2014)."After Apple Acquisition, Burstly's SkyRocket Users Get 90-Day Notice".TechCrunch.AOL.
  14. ^"Apple TestFlight servers from 2012 to 2015 leak, containing terabytes of data".Eurogamer.net.December 18, 2023.
  15. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://d193ln56du8muy.cloudfront.net/ipas/

See also[edit]

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