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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift

By : Dr. Dominik Hauser
Book Image

Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift

By: Dr. Dominik Hauser

Overview of this book

Test-driven development (TDD) is a proven way to find software bugs early. Writing tests before your code improves the structure and maintainability of your app. Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift will help you understand the process of TDD and how it impacts your applications written in Swift. Through practical, real-world examples, you’ll start seeing how to implement TDD in context. We will begin with an overview of your TDD workflow and then deep-dive into unit testing concepts and code cycles. We will showcase the workings of functional tests, which will help you improve the user interface. Finally, you will learn about automating deployments and continuous integration to run an environment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Behavior-Driven Development


Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is sort of similar to TDD, but you focus on testing the behavior of your app instead. The main difference is the way the tests are written. Using XCTest, you mainly use the method name to describe what the test does. BDD frameworks usually allow you to write the expected behavior as a text string, and therefore, make the tests easier to read.

It is often said that the tests become so clear that people who are not familiar with programming can write them. Here is an example that uses the Quick framework and its matcher framework, Nimble:

class ToDoItemSpec: QuickSpec {
    override func spec() {
        describe("to-do item") {
            
            it("can be created with a title") {
                let item = ToDoItem(title: "Test title")
                expect(item).toNot(beNil())
            }
            
            it("can be created with a title and a description") {
                let item = ToDoItem(title: "Test title...