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HockeyApp vs TestFairy

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TestFairy
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HockeyApp vs TestFairy: What are the differences?

HockeyApp: Manage your betas and collect live crash reports for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and OS X apps. HockeyApp is the best way to collect live crash reports, get feedback from your users, distribute your betas, and analyze your test coverage; TestFairy: Painless Beta Testing. When testing apps in the crowd, you never know what exactly was done, and what went wrong on the client side. TestFairy shows you a video of the exact test that was done, including CPU, memory, GPS, network and a lot more.

HockeyApp and TestFairy can be primarily classified as "Beta Testing / Mobile App Distribution" tools.

Some of the features offered by HockeyApp are:

  • Crash Reports- HockeyApp offers the most reliable and complete crash reporting for beta and App Store versions using open source frameworks. Providing full server-side symbolication with class names, methods, line numbers, and automatic grouping of similar crash reports.
  • Feedback- HockeyApp allows you to communicate with your customers. Users can create a support request, post an idea, or discuss a problem right from within the app.
  • Distribution- Upload your beta versions to HockeyApp and distribute them to your beta testers. Integrate our open-source SDK and your app will automatically be able to detect updates and offer the updates right within the app.Analytics- By integrating our SDK into your app, you'll get advanced metrics to get a better overview of the testing for your app. See which devices were tested, which testers used the app for how long, and which language was tested.

On the other hand, TestFairy provides the following key features:

  • App distribution
  • Video recording
  • Crash handler

"Crash analytics" is the top reason why over 14 developers like HockeyApp, while over 7 developers mention "Get video rec of the user on your app" as the leading cause for choosing TestFairy.

According to the StackShare community, HockeyApp has a broader approval, being mentioned in 50 company stacks & 10 developers stacks; compared to TestFairy, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Pros of HockeyApp
Pros of TestFairy
  • 17
    Crash analytics
  • 11
    Cross-platform
  • 5
    Mobile application distribution
  • 2
    JIRA Integration
  • 2
    Open source
  • 1
    GitHub Integration
  • 8
    Get video rec of the user on your app
  • 4
    Landing Page
  • 4
    Better design
  • 3
    JIRA Integration
  • 2
    Cross-platform
  • 2
    Supports Enterprise IPA's (TestFlight doesn't/didn't)
  • 2
    GitHub Integration
  • 1
    Application full Log information
  • 1
    In-App Feedback
  • 1
    Single Sign-On
  • 1
    App Distribution

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What is HockeyApp?

HockeyApp is the best way to collect live crash reports, get feedback from your users, distribute your betas, and analyze your test coverage.

What is TestFairy?

When testing apps in the crowd, you never know what exactly was done, and what went wrong on the client side. TestFairy shows you a video of the exact test that was done, including CPU, memory, GPS, network and a lot more.

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What are some alternatives to HockeyApp and TestFairy?
TestFlight
With TestFlight, developers simply upload a build, and the testers can install it directly from their device, over the air.
Fabric
Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. It provides a basic suite of operations for executing local or remote shell commands (normally or via sudo) and uploading/downloading files, as well as auxiliary functionality such as prompting the running user for input, or aborting execution.
Crashlytics
Instead of just showing you the stack trace, Crashlytics performs deep analysis of each and every thread. We de-prioritize lines that don't matter while highlighting the interesting ones. This makes reading stack traces easier, faster, and far more useful! Crashlytics' intelligent grouping can take 50,000 crashes, distill them down to 20 unique issues, and then tell you which 3 are the most important to fix.
fastlane
fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
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