App Ops Desk · Issue #32
Background work release checks
Background behavior is where “worked on my desk” goes to die. Power assertions, permissions, and OS scheduling will not honor your demo script.
One action this week: For each background mode you ship, write the user-visible reason and one force-quit / cold-start test you actually ran on the archive build.
Checks
- Info.plist background modes match real features
- Permission strings honest and reviewable
- Task identifiers stable across versions
- Failure is visible (badge, inbox, next-open banner) — not silent data loss
Failure modes
- Background mode enabled “just in case”
- Only tested while Xcode debugger attached
- Assuming refresh runs every N minutes in production
Bottom line
If the feature depends on the OS waking you, your release test must include life without the debugger.
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