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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

What we have learned so far


In the course of this book, we have mainly written unit tests. As the name suggests, unit tests test small units in isolation. The advantage of using unit tests for TDD is the immediate feedback that is received in the TDD workflow. We wrote a test, ran it, and immediately got feedback about the status of our code.

We used mocks, stubs, and fakes to separate the units from the rest of the code. This allowed us to focus the tests on one micro feature at a time.

Using TDD, we build a model, View Controller, and the network layer of our app. Next, we put all the parts together to form a real iOS app. We have seen how to use UI tests to implement functional testing that focuses on individual features rather than units.

Finally, we also used Xcode Server and fastlane to automate the whole development and deployment process.

But, as you might have guessed, there is more. This book is, at best, only the beginning of your journey to becoming a testing expert. The next few...