macOS App Testing and Release QA
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Also known as: Testing, QA, release validation and diagnostics collection for a sandboxed Mac App Store network monitor (TestFlight for Mac, altool/Transporter/App Store Connect API, clean-OS QA, App Review screen recording, fault injection) — verify against Apple docs, Oct 2026, macOS 27.x
Children
- App Store Connect API JWT key scoping (frontier)
- Build processing email failures (frontier)
- Clean-machine QA matrix VM fresh user latest macOS release and physical Mac (frontier)
- Container inspection and reset between test runs (frontier)
- Crash and log collection for store apps Organizer MetricKit OSLog and log collect versus zero telemetry (frontier)
- Entitlement assertion in CI smoke test (frontier)
- Export compliance ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption (frontier)
- First-launch and permission-prompt checks on clean installs (frontier)
- Fresh local user account on a physical Mac as clean state (frontier)
- ITMS-90889 provisioning profile for sandboxed Mac apps (frontier)
- Mac App Store signing certificate pairing (frontier)
- MenuBarExtra accessibility identifiers (frontier)
- MetricKit diagnostics in sandboxed Mac apps (frontier)
- Network fault injection for testing monitors Network Link Conditioner dummynet pfctl and DNS blackhole (frontier)
- Per-process fault injection via Network Extension (frontier)
- Privacy label wording for no-collection apps (frontier)
- QuickTime Player screen recording and trimming (frontier)
- Re-encoding a recording to H.264 with avconvert or ffmpeg (frontier)
- Reachability transition testing with NWPathMonitor (frontier)
- Sandbox verification harness sandboxed ad-hoc build sandbox-deny logs and container inspection (frontier)
- Screen recording for App Review capture tools codecs size and attach versus link (frontier)
- Snapshotting VM golden images with Tart (frontier)
- Symbolication with dSYMs for Organizer and MetricKit crashes (frontier)
- TestFlight Internal Only uploads (frontier)
- TestFlight for Mac internal and external testing build processing and beta review (frontier)
- UI automation of menu bar apps XCUITest and Accessibility API (frontier)
- Unified log capture via `log show` for after-the-fact deny analysis (frontier)
- Validate and upload altool Transporter App Store Connect API and ITMS error catalogue (frontier)
- automationmodetool and CI UI test setup (frontier)
- pf anchor lifecycle and pf.conf restoration (frontier)
Frontier under this node: App Store Connect API JWT key scoping, Build processing email failures, Clean-machine QA matrix VM fresh user latest macOS release and physical Mac, Container inspection and reset between test runs, Crash and log collection for store apps Organizer MetricKit OSLog and log collect versus zero telemetry, Entitlement assertion in CI smoke test, Export compliance ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption, First-launch and permission-prompt checks on clean installs, Fresh local user account on a physical Mac as clean state, ITMS-90889 provisioning profile for sandboxed Mac apps, Mac App Store signing certificate pairing, MenuBarExtra accessibility identifiers, MetricKit diagnostics in sandboxed Mac apps, Network fault injection for testing monitors Network Link Conditioner dummynet pfctl and DNS blackhole, Per-process fault injection via Network Extension, Privacy label wording for no-collection apps, QuickTime Player screen recording and trimming, Re-encoding a recording to H.264 with avconvert or ffmpeg, Reachability transition testing with NWPathMonitor, Sandbox verification harness sandboxed ad-hoc build sandbox-deny logs and container inspection, Screen recording for App Review capture tools codecs size and attach versus link, Snapshotting VM golden images with Tart, Symbolication with dSYMs for Organizer and MetricKit crashes, TestFlight Internal Only uploads, TestFlight for Mac internal and external testing build processing and beta review, UI automation of menu bar apps XCUITest and Accessibility API, Unified log capture via `log show` for after-the-fact deny analysis, Validate and upload altool Transporter App Store Connect API and ITMS error catalogue, automationmodetool and CI UI test setup, pf anchor lifecycle and pf.conf restoration