The Apple Watch is coming. Are you ready? With the release of the much-anticipated watch happening in less than a month, I thought it would be fun to talk about iOS testing. This episode should help you get up-to-speed with iOS testing and start thinking about how you’re going to test Apple Watch apps. Andy Obusek is an iOS mobile developer at the popular Email marketing firm AWeber, and he shares some of his favorite IOS tips and tricks with us.
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Andy Obusek
Andy has been an iOS Engineer since iOS 3.0 with professional experience as an independent and enterprise developer. He is the co-host of the podcast Brotherly Mobile, where he talks about technology and software development with a loose focus on mobile devices. Andy has also spent significant time coding in the J2EE world and contributes articles to many of the popular technology how-to sites, including Tuts+.
Quotes & Insights from this Test Talk
- XCODE is where you write your IOS code in.
- You have two options when debugging your IOS apps – either on a physical device or a simulator – and there are pros and cons for running on either one.
- It normally takes more time to run your test on an actual device.
- XCTest is Apple’s unit testing framework.
- Writing automation tests is hard, and is something you need organizational support for to be successful with.
- You write Objective-C code that calls methods from your “production” code and verify that the code under test actually does what it’s intended to do.
- UI Automation is a tool provided by Apple to perform a higher level of testing on your iOS application than anything achievable with XCTest.
- UI Automation tests are written in JavaScript.
- OCMock is one of Andy’s favorite open-source tools that helps to mock objects for Objective-C.
- KIF, which stands for Keep It Functional, is an iOS integration test framework. It allows for easy automation of iOS apps by leveraging the accessibility attributes that the OS makes available for those with visual disabilities.
- KIF allows you to write automated tests using Objective-C or Swift.
- FBSnapshotTestCase – created by Facebook and allows you to create image-based UI automated tests.
- It’s important that KIF does not make it into production code, as it will get your app submission denied by Apple.
- Xcode 6 and above has the ability to measure the performance of a piece of code.
- Apple Watch uses the WatchKit to write watch apps. The code you write for Apple Watch apps is going to be bundled with the iOS app that is paired with that WatchKit app.
- Much, much more!
Resources
- Introduction to Testing on IOS
- Introduction to iOS Testing with UI Automation
- FBSnapshotTestCase – Facebook mobile image-based testing framework
- OCMock – Objective-C mocking library
- KIF – Cool new iOS automated testing framework
- WatchKit
- BOOK->Test iOS Apps with UI Automation: Bug Hunting Made Easy By Jonathan Penn
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- Twitter: @obusek
- Blog: http://www.andyobusek.com/
- Podcast: Brotherly Mobile
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