Automate your iOS apps using Bitrise

After 4 months of using Bitrise, I felt like I should share with the community how powerful this tool is. It will be good to make a quick introduction to automation and see why exactly we need a tool for it. Let’s start with quick intro to automation in iOS and see how new tool can speed our development.

What is “automation” in software engineering?

Developing, testing and deploying needs so much attention and time for the teams. Especially, if you are making all these steps manually. You have to be careful on each step for avoiding possible mistakes. Automating the whole development/testing process increases your software product quality and saves a lot of time for you and your team.

There are some steps that you should know in the automation process, such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. Let’s explain them in a nutshell:

Continuous Integration

Let’s say your team has more than one developer who works on the same project, and you are working on Git. Assume that one developer makes a Pull Request, all the unit tests can be run on a shared computer (remote or local). After tests completed running, you know that they succeeded or failed. If the tests passed you can start making code review…