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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift 4 - Third Edition

By : Dr. Dominik Hauser
Book Image

Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift 4 - Third Edition

By: Dr. Dominik Hauser

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).
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Handling errors

Using try! instead of try in the call to jsonObject(with:options:), you tell the compiler: trust me on this: this method will never fail. Let's write a test that feeds in wrong data and asserts that an error is thrown:

func test_Login_WhenJSONIsInvalid_ReturnsError() { 
  
  
  mockURLSession = MockURLSession(data: Data(), 
                                  urlResponse: nil, 
                                  error: nil) 
  sut.session = mockURLSession 
  
 
  let errorExpectation = expectation(description: "Error") 
  var catchedError: Error? = nil 
  sut.loginUser(withName: "Foo", password: "Bar") { (token, error) in 
    catchedError = error 
    errorExpectation.fulfill() 
  } 
   

  waitForExpectations(timeout: 1) { (error) in 
    XCTAssertNotNil(catchedError) 
  } 
} 

In the test, you feed an empty data object to the completion...