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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift - Fourth Edition

By : Dr. Dominik Hauser
Book Image

Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift - Fourth Edition

By: Dr. Dominik Hauser

Overview of this book

Test-driven development (TDD) is a proven way to find software bugs earlier on in software development. Writing tests before you code improves the structure and maintainability of your apps, and so using TDD in combination with Swift 5.5's improved syntax leaves you with no excuse for writing bad code. Developers working with iOS will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide to TDD in iOS. This book will help you grasp the fundamentals and show you how to run TDD with Xcode. You'll learn how to test network code, navigate between different parts of the app, run asynchronous tests, and much more. Using practical, real-world examples, you'll begin with an overview of the TDD workflow and get to grips with unit testing concepts and code cycles. You'll then develop an entire iOS app using TDD while exploring different strategies for writing tests for models, view controllers, and networking code. Additionally, you'll explore how to test the user interface and business logic of iOS apps and even write tests for the network layer of the sample app. By the end of this TDD book, you'll be able to implement TDD methodologies comfortably in your day-to-day development for building scalable and robust applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1 –The Basics of Test-Driven iOS Development
5
Section 2 –The Data Model
9
Section 3 –Views and View Controllers
13
Section 4 –Networking and Navigation

Testing the app's setup

When our app starts, a coordinator should be instantiated and started. This should result in the presentation of the initial view of our app. Follow these steps to refactor the setup from using a storyboard to using a coordinator:

  1. Before we can refactor the setup of the app, we need a test that tells us when we break something. Select the ToDoTests group in the project navigator and add a new Unit Test Case Class instance with the name AppSetupTests.
  2. Replace the content of the new class with the following:
    // AppSetupTests.swift
    import XCTest
    @testable import ToDo
    class AppSetupTests: XCTestCase {
      func test_application_shouldSetupRoot() {
        let application = UIApplication.shared
        let scene = application.connectedScenes.first
        as? UIWindowScene
        let root =
          scene?.windows.first?.rootViewController
      ...