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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift

By : Dr. Dominik Hauser
Book Image

Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift

By: Dr. Dominik Hauser

Overview of this book

Test-driven development (TDD) is a proven way to find software bugs early. Writing tests before your code improves the structure and maintainability of your app. Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift will help you understand the process of TDD and how it impacts your applications written in Swift. Through practical, real-world examples, you’ll start seeing how to implement TDD in context. We will begin with an overview of your TDD workflow and then deep-dive into unit testing concepts and code cycles. We will showcase the workings of functional tests, which will help you improve the user interface. Finally, you will learn about automating deployments and continuous integration to run an environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Handling errors


Using try! instead of try in the call to JSONObjectWithData(_:options:), we tell the compiler: "Trust me on this: This method will never fail.". Let's write a test that feeds in wrong data and asserts that an error is thrown:

func testLogin_ThrowsErrorWhenJSONIsInvalid() {
    
    var theError: ErrorType?
    let completion = { (error: ErrorType?) in
        theError = error
    }
    sut.loginUserWithName("dasdom",
        password: "1234",
        completion: completion)
    
    let responseData = NSData()
    mockURLSession.completionHandler?(responseData, nil, nil)
    
    XCTAssertNotNil(theError)
}

In the test, we call the completion handler with an empty data object.

Run the tests. The implementation code crashes because the deserialization fails and throws an error. Let's change the code that it handles the thrown error correctly. Replace the contents of the completion handler with this:

do {
    let responseDict = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data!,...