IOS8 using TestFlight for internal testing features early adopters

IOS8 released for some time, our planning is very trendy speed to upgrade to IOS8. So XCODE5 not support, had to upgrade from MacOS 10.8 to 10.9, then upgrade to 10.9.5, then download XCode6 install ...

Then two days before uploading a version to the Apple Audit, found itunes connect more than one prerelease tab, inside there is a internal testers, so the internet search under, saw an article:/http www.infoq.com/cn/news/2014/06/apple-ios8-testflight/

After reading the feeling seems to be very useful, now more and more people do not want to escape, so give them a test version becomes a problem, if you can use the official support of the test system, is very convenient. So look at the document to play with, but the feeling is too restrictive, almost meaningless, for the following reasons:

1. Requirements IOS8 System, the current system acceptance is not high, so that people to test the special upgrade system, may not be able to accept

2. The tester must have one of the Admin/tech/legal permissions on the itunes account , but these permissions obviously cannot be given to the grassroots testers or even the co-testers.

As a result of this limitation, the individual believes that Apple's new offering is really only for internal testing. For example, things like my former company are relatively thin, the program passes the version, and the person who manages the version of itunes is tested. But usually real internal testing, testers are QA or planning, for account security, they usually do not have or not all itunes permissions, which makes this feature is very chicken .

The rough steps in this article speak more clearly about http://blog.thebetafamily.com/2014/09/10/testflight-beta-testing-ios-8/, although it is e-text, but wins in the graph, But maybe because after itunes there are updates or other, some of the steps I found in the actual operation are slightly different. There is an unusual place to use Apple's official documents as a quasi-https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/ Itunesconnect_guide/chapters/betatestingtheapp.htm

Roughly describe the process

What the developers need to do here:

1. Upload the beta version. Upload step and on to Apple Audit no difference, after uploading will appear in builds inside. Before I test, the upload does not show the application icon, next to a hint, asked to update the new provision file with this feature, but today to see that the old version can not be used no longer have such a hint, and in the document is not found, It is not known whether Apple has canceled this restriction.

2. In the users and roles itunes Connect users page, add the Internal tester account and click on the Details page, open the Internal Tester, and click Save in the upper right corner.

3. Back to prerelease intervnal testers inside, you can see the account you just added, click on the left tick box, and click Save, this time you will see the status of the state becomes the added

4. Invite button I was looking for a long time did not find, finally looked at the official Apple document to know (to invite Internal testers, turn the Enable Beta testing switch to the on PO Sition.
This means returning to the builds interface and turning the TestFlight Beta testing button into open mode. If you've opened it before, turn it off and then open it, and you'll see that the user status is automatically changed to invited.

The next step is to do what the tester wants to do:

1. First the tester must have a iOS8 device and download and install the TestFlight software on the App Store and log into the Apple Id with intervnal testers permissions.

2. Then open the invitation message in the mailbox of the Apple ID on the iOS8 device , then click the Open in TestFlight button in the email, and the TestFlight will open, and the test app we uploaded should appear. You are now ready to download the test.

IOS8 using TestFlight for internal testing features early adopters