Testing Your Windows Phone 8 Apps Series.

The second part of the series on “Testing Your Windows Phone 8 Apps” has now been published on the Windows Phone Developer Blog. Testing your apps before releasing them to the store can make a huge difference. A small investment in the key areas described in this post can give your app better results in your market and help bypass common coding errors early in the development process.

Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 1 – Released May 1, 2013

• Beta testing
• Installation and launch
• Fast Application Switching (FAS) and tombstoning
• App navigation
• Launchers and choosers
• UI and layout

Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 2 – Released May 22, 2013

• Push notification
• Live Tiles
• Agents
• Media, audio, and video
• Geolocation
• Resource usage and performance