UserTesting, and BetaList) and communities on Reddit, Facebook, and other online locales. His affectless, antiseptic pages might make you think otherwise, with their crisply ruled angles, their fastidious tones, their careful and deliberate air. The best news? The program starts today at noon, and you'll be able to download the newest Facebook app beta directly. What makes a good beta tester and how do you find them.
Reporting bugs is easy: just tap the new "Report Bug" icon in the settings menu, and the necessary information will get sent to Zuckerberg's crew. The social media company is beta-testing features for Facebook Messenger that are designed to help businesses generate leads and improve appointment booking. I’m inspired by the art form and the culture, and while I work at Facebook, I’m also a hip-hop songwriter and ghostwriter under the alias D-Lucks. DJ Iyer aka D-Lucks BARS Community Manager Share on Facebook. Once you're on the app's beta version, you need only use the app as you normally would. Introducing BARS A New Beta Test Empowering Rappers to Create and Share. Additionally, Facebook has created its own FB group to facilitate discussion between testers and devs, and while it wants folks to join, it's not a requirement. To get in on the dogfooding action, folks simply need to sign up for the Google group, then opt-in to become a beta tester and head over to Google Play to download the app.
Thankfully, at I/O this year, Google announced a new framework that allows app builders to create a Google Group for beta testers and allow those testers to download beta versions of apps from the Play Store.įacebook has created just such a group and wants Android users the world over to sign up as beta testers. You see, Facebook has found that the huge diversity of hardware and OS software in the Android ecosystem makes it difficult to find every bug and issue with new releases when using only internal folks (and their limited number and kinds of devices) as testers. To aid in Android development, Facebook's starting up a new beta testing program for the main FB app to help identify bugs and get user feedback before each monthly release.
Facebook's always working on improving its mobile apps, and doing so for Android has proven to be a unique challenge.