iOS release engineering
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This document discusses the challenges of developing and maintaining mobile apps across different device versions and SDKs with distributed teams that lack processes. It seeks a release engineer to automate build, test and distribution workflows through continuous integration, automated testing on multiple platforms, and tools to eliminate pain points. The ideal candidate has strong familiarity with Xcode, iOS provisioning, scripting languages like Python, Linux and Mac OSX, and experience with tools like Hudson.
iOS release engineering
- 2. The Challenge Apps are products Your company is a service company Products require dedicated product management ● Develop ● Distribute ● Maintain
- 3. The Challenge iOS apps are particularly challenging ● Xcode versions ● SDK versions ● Device versions Your company is particularly challenging ● Distributed teams ● Very few resources ● No process
- 4. The Job Responsibilities ● Maintain and extend existing Android and iOS continuous build infrastructure ● Develop automated test infrastructure for mobile and desktop platforms ● Interface with QA engineers to automate existing manual test suites ● Write tools to automate and eliminate pain points in Dev, QA, and Distribution workflows ● Investigate new technologies to help build new products and their dependencies
- 5. The Job Skills ● High level of familiarity with Version Control, XCode and iOS provisioning ● Proficient in scripting languages (Python and others) ● Comfortably works with multiple operating systems (Linux and Mac OSX) ● Able to function in a fast moving environment where code quality and system stability are a priority ● Experience with continuous integration tools such as Hudson.