# Automating OS X app test build distribution across multiple OS versions

DevFeed: [Automating OS X app test build distribution across multiple OS versions](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/automating-os-x-app-test-build-distribution-across-multiple-os-versions-37496.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cimgf.com/2013/12/17/automating-os-x-app-test-build-distribution-across-multiple-os-versions/>)

Author: Fraser Hess

Published: 2013-12-17T18:21:08Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Cocoa Is My Girlfriend](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cocoa-is-my-girlfriend.md>)

Topics: [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Mac Mini](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mac-mini.md>), [Xcode](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/xcode.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ide.md>)

Tags: [app-distribution](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app-distribution.md>), [apple](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apple.md>), [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [development-environment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development-environment.md>), [local](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/local.md>), [mac](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mac.md>), [ssd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssd.md>), [sync](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sync.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes a Mac-based setup for testing OS X applications across multiple OS X versions. It uses a Mac mini running VMware Fusion virtual machines, an SSD to improve performance, and scripted Xcode build distribution synchronized across the test environments.

## Source excerpt

With Apple now shipping OS X upgrades every 12-15 months, Mac developers are very quickly finding themselves supporting their apps on multiple OS X versions. Until recently, my approach to testing on multiple OS X versions involved partitioning an external USB drive and installing the OS X versions onto it and booting off the partitions [...]