Unit testing on the iPhone
28-Nov-2008 Filed in: iPhone | Software
Development
Thanks to Google,
there's a unit-testing framework for the
iPhone.
There's not much more to say about it -- the
instructions are crystal clear and it worked
exactly as described. It's compatible with OCUnit
(the Objective-C unit test framework in XCode), so
once you set it up, you can just create test cases
the way you would for any ObjC project.
One quirk -- it instructs you to add a build step that runs the unit-tests during build time and shows the failures as compiler errors that you can then use XCode to track down. That's nice, but I have found that you don't really have enough of an environment to successfully run every kind of test -- they run fine if you run them in the simulator. The main problem I have is with setting up my database in my Documents folder -- I get errors at build-time that work just fine at run-time.
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One quirk -- it instructs you to add a build step that runs the unit-tests during build time and shows the failures as compiler errors that you can then use XCode to track down. That's nice, but I have found that you don't really have enough of an environment to successfully run every kind of test -- they run fine if you run them in the simulator. The main problem I have is with setting up my database in my Documents folder -- I get errors at build-time that work just fine at run-time.
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