testing – TiDev

Versioning builds and releases

When I was playing with Apple’s new TestFlight I ran into the issue of conflicting build versions I’m sure you’re all familiar with: This bundle is invalid. The key CFBundleVersion in the Info.plist file must contain a higher version than that of the previously uploaded version. Before TestFlight, iTunes Connect let you re-use the same […]

How to use Apple’s new TestFlight beta testing

After it’s quiet acquisition by Apple early this year, TestFlight has now been fully integrated in iTunes Connect. In this guest blog, Nick den Engelsman shows you how to distribute your Titanium apps via TestFlight. How it should work Create AppStore build Upload to iTunes connect Turn on TestFlight beta testing for your build For […]

Fully Automated Acceptance Testing

Automated testing of Titanium seems to be a hot topic in the community. We’ve seen several talks on this topic on all 3 tiConfs. Today we have a guest blog by Steven Senior about fully automated acceptance testing. A lengthy blog, but it really takes you from start to end! Introdution A few years ago […]

Crash reporter

In order to solve an issue with TiShadow, David wrote the cross-platform TiLogCatcher module that catches all Titanium exceptions and lets you tap into them using an event listener on the module. He hopes to add full device logs some time soon. Reporter module Having access to exceptions in Titanium allowed me to make a […]

Easier iOS beta distribution with Installr

As you know, one of the critical phases of any app development project is user testing – getting your customers to try your app before submitting it to the App Store. The more testers the better – they will help you find bugs and determine any critical improvements you need to make before it is […]

Debug memory leaks with XCode Instruments

Using Appcelerator doesn’t mean you don’t have to take care of memory leaks. Odds are there is at least one leak in your app right now. Relatively unknown is that this can be easily detected with some XCode Instruments. I’ll show you how. Walkthrough Run your app from Titanium Studio or CLI in the Simulator […]

App.io – Preview your app in your browser

We have all been there. It takes you less time to develop the app, because you are using Titanium and Alloy of course, than it does to setup your provisioning profiles and get your clients UDID. Yes, you even sent them that link to the app in the app store that will send you the […]

Mocha testing support for Titanium

One of the most both undervalued and underestimated aspects of app development is automated testing. Alloy lead Tony Lukasavage has been improving the automated test suite for Alloy over time and recently released ti-mocha, a Titanium port of the popular Mocha. Read all about it on his personal blog.