Xamarin Continuous Integration and Delivery: Team Services, Test Cloud, and HockeyApp

by Gerald Versluis

Learn everything you need to set up a full-featured, automated pipeline for Xamarin development and deployment. Automate everything from the build step through to deployment and delivery to your customer. If you thought this level of automation could be achieved only by large companies with generous funding, think again! You as a single developer, or working in a small team or company, can automate your processes to punch heavier than your weight. What’s more, you can achieve this level of automation completely for free!This hands-on guide takes you step-by-step from setting up your first automated build all the way to integrated unit testing, and finally through to delivering a high-quality app to your testers and end users. The automation presented in this book saves a lot of frustration and recurring work, providing you more time to focus on building the robust and compelling apps that delight your customers and keep you steps ahead of the competition. Not only does this book teach how to get a grip on consistent quality, but it covers the use of HockeyApp to track events and usage, and to report errors and anomalies back to home base for developers to investigate. Many times it’s possible to detect and fix errors before a user even notices they are there.This the necessity of an automated development pipelineHelps you set up an automated pipeline for Xamarin developmentIntegrates testing (on physical devices!) to ensure high-quality appsWhat You'll LearnWhy you want an automated development pipelineObtain and configure the automated toolingContinuously integrate your appsRun automated unit testsPush updates to your customersMonitor and detect errors without user interventionWho This Book Is ForApp developers looking for ways to ensure consistent quality of work and wanting to know how their apps are doing in actual use by customers

317 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 9, 2017