#7 Testing and testing
Following the learn-by-doing approach, in September 2024 I started working on my first app, Drinklytics. In this section I share my journey, ideally once a month
I have not been able to devote much time to the development of Drinklytics in the last period, but recently I have been able to resume work on it.
During my last post, I was in the closed testing phase, looking for people willing to join the tester club through the app's landing page.
Now there are twenty to thirty users who are testing the app.
What I learned.
- Google now requires only 12 users for testing.
- The fourteen-day countdown starts when the 12 users join.
- They don't have to use the app every day, but they do have to stay signed up for the entire time period.
- Of course, if one user leaves, another must take his or her place for the 14-day count.
- Google simply provides a daily update in the Play Console dashboard, indicating whether the 12 users are still present.
- At the end of the test, Google will ask me to answer some questions about the test.
If all goes well, Big G will allow me to publish the app. Let's see.
I have received some feedback from testers and am now managing the backlog to reorganize priorities.
