Step 2: add the testers' group to the track
Peerbeta's testers reach your app through our Google group. In the track's “Testers” tab, choose “Google Groups” and paste our address.
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What this step is for
Peerbeta's testers join our Google group once. Adding that group to your track opens your test to all of them, without handling a single email address.
How to do it
- In the track, open the “Testers” tab.
- Choose “Google Groups”, not “Email lists”.
- Paste the address shown in this Peerbeta step. If two are shown, our group and a backup group, paste both: the field takes several.
- Add your own group's address if you have one, then save.
- If managed publishing is on, publish the change from “Publishing overview”.
Common mistakes
- Keeping friends and family in an email list. A track uses either email lists or Google groups, never both: when you switch to groups, the track loses that list. Put those people in a Google group of your own and add it next to ours.
- Entering our address as an email list: nobody in the group gets in.
- Adding the group to another track than the one with your release.
- Forgetting to save.
If testers then get “Item not found”, see the group isn't on the track ("“Item not found” for several testers: the group isn't on the track").
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“Item not found” for several testers: the group isn't on the trackSeveral testers get “Item not found” from the start because the testers' group isn't on the closed testing track, or was entered as an email list. Add it under “Google Groups” in the track's Testers tab.Step 3: take our testers off internal testingA tester enrolled in your app's internal testing doesn't get the closed test. Remove our group, and any list with our testers, from “Internal testing › Testers”.Step 1: create the closed testing trackThe test runs on a closed testing track of your app in the Play Console. Open “Test and release › Testing › Closed testing” and keep one track for the whole test.“Join the testers' group first”: the group step was skippedGoogle only lets members of Peerbeta's testers' Google group into the tests. Join it once from your tester space, then open the test link again.