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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift 4 - Third Edition

By : Dr. Dominik Hauser

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Overview of this book

Test-driven development (TDD) is a proven way to find software bugs early. Writing tests before you code improves the structure and maintainability of your apps. Using TDD, in combination with Swift 4's improved syntax, means there is no longer any excuse for writing bad code. This book will help you understand the process of TDD and how to apply it to your apps written in Swift. Through practical, real-world examples, you’ll learn how to implement TDD in context. You will begin with an overview of the TDD workflow and then delve into unit-testing concepts and code cycles. You will also plan and structure your test-driven iOS app, and write tests to drive the development of view controllers and helper classes. Next, you’ll learn how to write tests for network code and explore how the test-driven approach—in combination with stubs—helps you write network code even before the backend component is finished. Finally, the book will guide you through the next steps to becoming a testing expert by discussing integration tests, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), open source testing frameworks, and UI Tests (introduced in Xcode 9).

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Your First Unit Tests

Building your first automatic unit test

Understanding TDD

TDD in Xcode

The advantages of TDD

The disadvantages of TDD

What to test

Summary

Planning and Structuring Your Test-Driven iOS App

The task list view

The task detail view

The task input view

The structure of the app

Getting started with Xcode

Setting up useful Xcode behaviors for testing

Summary

A Test-Driven Data Model

Implementing the ToDoItem struct

Implementing the Location struct

Implementing the ItemManager class

Summary

A Test-Driven View Controller

Implementing ItemListViewController

Implementing ItemListDataProvider

Implementing DetailViewController

Implementing InputViewController

Summary

Testing Network Code

Implementing tests using a web service

Implementing a login request

Handling errors

Summary

Putting It All Together

Connecting parts

Serialization and deserialization

Functional tests

Summary

Code Coverage

Enabling code coverage

Automatic deployment with fastlane

Summary

Where to Go from Here

What you have learned so far

Integration tests

UI tests

Behavior-Driven Development

TDD in existing projects

Generating mocks with Sourcery

More information about TDD

Summary

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Getting started with Xcode

Now, let's start our journey by creating a project that we will implement using TDD.

Open Xcode and create a new iOS project using the Single View Application template. In the options window, add ToDo as the product name, select Swift as language, and check the box next to Include Unit Tests. Let the Use Core Data and Include UI Tests boxes stay unchecked.

Xcode creates a small iOS project with two targets: one for the implementation code and the other for the unit tests. The template contains code that presents a single view on screen. We could have chosen to start with the master-detail application template because the app will show a master and a detail view. However, we have chosen the Single View Application template because it comes with hardly any code. In TDD, we want to have all the implementation code demanded by failing tests.

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