AppDoctor, a Grand Rapids, Michigan-based startup, was founded to solve common development issues in a cost-effective way
Grand Rapids Michigan is where I grew up! My family is always trying to pull be back. That’s awesome to see your startup based there. Congrats.
It has been a while since I posted. I finally got around to doing a short demo of AppDoctor tests:
Also if you use the discount code ‘month-free’ when signing up you get 40$ applied to your account(only last till July)
Now for my funny elixir story:
Everything has gone really well since launch. No breaking bugs and everything has been running very smooth. Funny enough it turns out when you took a certain common action it crashed an account process every time(bad state format). I never even realized this was happening because the supervisor would restart the process and it would pull correct state format from the DB, so this bug went months unnoticed(since then I added better logging). Although it sucks to have a bug its great when everything continues to work correctly!(thanks elixir).
https://blog.appdoctor.io/may-feature-release/
Some interesting tidbits. We at AppDoctor use hot upgrades and since launch has not had a single second of downtime. We have Tests scheduled and running in GenServers that have been running since day 1 of release.
Doing hot upgrades during CI was a challenge in itself to figure out because we needed to pull the old artifact in order for distillery to figure out the update path to the new version. I will probably write a blog post going forward about our deployment strategy because it has so far worked out quite well for us and allows us to constantly deploy without dropping WebSocket connections or messing up test schedules.
Do you have any intentions on open sourcing your app so we can see how certain bits of your app were implemented?
It is not currently possible to run browser checks via AppDoctor but it is on our backlog that we hope to complete this year!
AppDoctor can currently test any API use case as simple or complex as you need due to the robust rules engine. We plan on using the same rules engine when adding browser tests so you can expect the same robust level of customization to accommodate all use cases.
I do not have any plans to open source the application in entirety. I do plan to opensource what I can though.
The user authentication portion is open sourced and I continue to support / develop that.
Keep a look out here for more open sourced parts of AppDoctor going forward.
Long time since last post but we just released an onboarding update for AppDoctor(finally)
https://blog.appdoctor.io/august-feature-release/
Also on more exciting news github user dfalling has updated AccessPass to include ecto 3.x.x support.
For any not familiar AccessPass is AppDoctors open source user auth library.
If anyone has any questions about AccessPass or AppDoctor feel free to pm or post here!
