Part 4. Getting ready to release

Once a desktop application is feature complete, there remain the last few steps of making sure the code is fully tested, issues are identified and fixed, and the app is built for various operating systems. This part shows how to write tests for your desktop apps, how to debug them and spot performance issues, and how to generate binary executables for your applications.

In chapter 16, we’ll look at ways you can go about testing desktop apps, using tools like Mocha, Cucumber, and Devtron. We’ll then continue to prepare your app for release by using debugging tools to help spot performance bottlenecks and root them out. In the final chapter of the book, I’ll show the various ways in which you can prepare your app for installing on Windows, Mac, and Linux.