Apple Device Management: A Unified Theory of Managing Macs, iPads, iPhones, and Apple TVs

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C. Edge, R. TroutonApple Device Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9156-6_9

9. A Culture of Automation and Continuous Testing

Charles Edge¹   and Rich Trouton²

(1)

Minneapolis, MN, USA

(2)

Middletown, MD, USA

 

Apple is on an annual release cycle for operating systems. Apple now has a new point release in beta at all times. There’s also a new version of Firefox released every 18 minutes (or what seems like 18 minutes). This means that the next thing is always around the corner. To compound problems, rather than push updates to computers and iOS devices, updates are now automatic, which means new ways to validate when updates were run can be required. ...