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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

Connecting parts


We will now put the different parts together and implement transitions between them. We need tests for the initial view that is shown after the app is started and for the navigation from this view to the other two views. The tests have to ensure that the view controllers are passed the data they need to populate their UIs.

The initial View Controller

When you build and run the app now on the simulator, you only see a black screen. The reason for that is we haven't specified which screen the app should show after it is started. Let's write a test for this. Because this is a test about the storyboard, add an iOS | Source | Unit Test Case Class to the test target, and call it StoryboardTests. Import the main module using the @testable keyword and remove the two template tests.

Add the following test to StoryboardTests:

func testInitialViewController_IsItemListViewController() {
    let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
    
    let navigationController = storyboard...