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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift - Fourth Edition

By : Dr. Dominik Hauser
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Book Image

Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift - Fourth Edition

5 (1)
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

Chapter 2: Understanding Test-Driven Development

Now that we have seen what unit tests are and how they can help in development, we are going to learn about test-driven development (TDD).

After giving you some insights into the origin and objective of TDD, we will move ahead and have a look at the benefits and drawbacks of it. By the end of the chapter, you will have a clear idea about the relevance of TDD and what should be or can be tested using it.

These are the main topics that we will cover in the chapter:

  • The origin of TDD
  • The TDD workflow
  • Advantages of TDD
  • Disadvantages of TDD
  • What to test