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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift - Fourth Edition

By : Dr. Dominik Hauser
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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "A table view is usually represented by UITableViewController, which is also the data source and delegate for the table view."

A block of code is set as follows:

// APIClient.swift
lazy var geoCoder: GeoCoderProtocol
  = CLGeocoder()

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

mkdir src/client/apollo touch src/client/apollo/index.js

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: "From the Details screen, the user will be able to check an item."

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