For a new personal developer account, the rule for production looks simple: at least 12 testers, opted in to your closed test for at least 14 days in a row .

In practice, from development through closed testing to production, a few points are easy to misunderstand, and getting them wrong often costs an extra round of testing.

1. Opted in is not installed, and installed is not opened every day

When a tester opens your opt-in link ( play.google.com/apps/testing/<package> ) and taps Become a tester , the opted-in count in Play Console goes up by one right away.

That only means they opted in .…