Mobile and Cloud – these two technology stalwarts are now synchronous with each other. Whenever we talk about these duos, there arises a genuine need for a mobile application testing tool that behaves like a cloud service and lets you distribute apps for testing purpose. One such versatile and robust tool is Microsoft’s HockeyApp – one of the popular service for mobile crash analysis and app distribution for developers, who deal with varied frameworks like iOS, Android and Windows Phone. This wonderful tool HockeyApp gives out a lot of mobile application development services that the developers can avail in order to develop, distribute and test the applications.

 

It, being one of the best services, you can test your app even if you have insufficient know how about how to do it. It allows you to upload the app on its platform for testing and offering a multitude of services – Crash reports, live reporting, bug reports – all of it. It is similar to Testflight but it supersedes this one since it also operates on Android and OS X.

 

There is yet another offering from Microsoft – Microsoft Application Insights that lets HockeyApp act as individual services with integration to let us know the no. of times the app has been started and executed along with different types of environment.

 

Key Functionalities Available in HockeyApp – the Mobile Application Testing tool

Majorly, there are 3 vital elements in this robust tool:

 

Crash Reporting

 

During Mobile Application Testing, one of the scariest things is for the system to crash, absolutely unwanted. During such moments, HockeyApp brings out the actual statistics and data which provide summaries of symbolicated stack traces and details of the infrastructure and environment. Real time crash reports are available and crash management is feasible for alpha, beta and production applications.

 

Distribution and Feedback

 

This tool brings out total transparency about the person accessing which applications and provides full on access to distribution. It allows you to build and upload apps from wherein testers are able to download and test them. It behaves like an independent application store for the testers.

 

One more flexibility is that gives out suggestions and feedback for any kind of enhancement which can be possible during Mobile Application Testing. The users are allowed to create requests and have discussions to share their views from within the app itself.

 

Cross Platform Support

 

It has a long lasting support for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, OS X and Windows and gives out a very fulfilling and fast user experience within all types of mobile devices.

 

Main Benefits of HockeyApp

 

• Open source and customized to fit user needs
• Can support varied mobile platforms as mentioned above
• Availability of Jenkins plug-in for HockeyApp
• Simplistic and easy configuration of plug-in
• Easily downloadable SDK, integration and distribution
• Lots of analytical data available on testing efforts made and to be made while Mobile Application Testing
• Simplified and full proof team management
• Effortless integration in which tickets can be created for crash groups in tools like JIRA, GitHub and so on
• Open and well documented API for the vast variety of data

 

HockeyApp has a prime motto of perfecting your apps and with its wonderful features and advantages; it is surely worth trying once. And you surely will be a regular user for it. You can get all its releases @ http://hockeyapp.net/releases/

 

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