Guests

• Joshua Greene - @jrg_developer - Senior Author for raywenderlich.com
• Michael Katz - @themikekatz - Senior Author for raywenderlich.com

Book - iOS Test Driven Development

Links

• Nimble
• Quick

Previous Episodes

• Episode 14: iOS App Architecutre 

Show Notes

The Components of Test-Driven Development

• Keep Your Iterations Small
• Test First 
• Circular Progress of Testing and Developing Functionality
• Avoid Testing other APIs (i.e. Integration Testing)
• Use Mock Data for Outside Dependencies
• Behavioral Driven Development vs XCTest

How to Encourage TDD in Your Team and Company

• Make sure Maintainability and Specs are Met
• Prevent Regressions with New Features
• Regular Code Reviews
• Tests Should Be Required Before Deployment
• Encourage a Culture of Testing
• Slow Add Tests to Projects Missing Them

Common Mistakes When Doing Test Driven Development

• Following the Golden Pathand not testing edge cases and errors
• Following Test Coverage too strictly or not enough
• Use Multiple Test Targets
• Write Tests First

For Experimenting with New APIs

• Use Spike Solutions to Experiment
• Write Temporary Tests
• Use Playground to Test Code

Continuous Integration Tools

• Jenkins
• Travis-CI
• CircleCI
• Xcode Server
• Fastlane

WWDC and TDD

• New Performance Tests
• Test Plan for Xcode
• SwiftUI, Live Previews, and Modeling

WWDC 2019 - Testing in Xcode 

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