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Why do you need to Mock DispatchQueue in Swift on the iOS platform for unit testing

Why do you need to Mock DispatchQueue in Swift on the iOS platform for unit testing

This article is a part of unit testing series which will teach you how to write a testable code, create mocks and how to inject them during unit testing. Today, we are going to look at the use-case where you need to mock the DispatchQueue and inject the instance to

Handling Expected Unit Test Failures in Swift and Xcode

Handling Expected Unit Test Failures in Swift and Xcode

Xcode allows developers to make unit testing efficient and free from noise by skipping certain tests with known failure. There are many cases where engineers want unit tests to effectively catch failing code. But how about those where they know tests will fail, but still want to keep those tests

try-catch Blocks and Unit Tests - Swift 3.0

try-catch Blocks and Unit Tests - Swift 3.0

In the last post I wrote about implementing error handler in Swift 3.0 using try-catch block technique. In this post I will go over how to unit test it. Since we all know unit tests are awesome! First off, let's write some fresh code on error handler. This is

Running UI tests from command line

Recently I ran into an interesting problem of writing UI tests. More interesting thing lied ahead when I had to run these tests on the command line. Here are some of the tips and tricks on how to run your UI tests through command line with variable options. If the

Swift - Testing singletons

In this post we will see how you can test swift singletons easily. Disclaimer: I haven't discovered it myself, but I found it a while back on StackOverflow while looking for how to test Swift singletons. So thanks to the anonymous person for the wonderful solution Say, I want to

Swift testing with protocols

In this post, we shall see how protocols work with unit testing. Say, you have a downloader class DownloadFileClass for fetching network data. It follows the protocol DownloadFileProtocol. The whole class and protocol looks like this. protocol DownloadFileProtocol { func downloadFile(with name: String, completion: (String) -> ()) } class DownloadFileClass { var downloadedFile:

iOS Testing - Input fields validation testing (Part 5)

This is the part 5 in the series of articles on 'Unit Testing on iOS'. Below is the list of all articles and respective links to them. 1. iOS Unit Tests - Testing models creation (Part 1) 2. iOS Unit Testing - Testing View Controller (Part 2) 3. iOS Unit

iOS Testing - Testing asynchronous code (Part 4)

This is the part 4 in the series of articles on 'Unit Testing on iOS'. Below is the list of all articles and respective links to them. 1. iOS Unit Tests - Testing models creation (Part 1) 2. iOS Unit Testing - Testing View Controller (Part 2) 3. iOS Unit

iOS Unit Testing - Switching method implementations with OCMock (Part 3)

This is the part 3 in the series of articles on 'Unit Testing on iOS'. Below is the list of all articles and respective links to them. 1. iOS Unit Tests - Testing models creation (Part 1) 2. iOS Unit Testing - Testing View Controller (Part 2) 3. iOS Unit

iOS Unit Testing - Testing View Controller (Part 2)

This is the part 2 in the series of articles on 'Unit Testing on iOS'. Below is the list of all articles and respective links to them. 1. iOS Unit Tests - Testing models creation (Part 1) 2. iOS Unit Testing - Testing View Controller (Part 2) 3. iOS Unit

iOS Unit Tests - Testing models creation (Part 1)

This is the part 1 in the series of articles on 'Unit Testing on iOS'. Below is the list of all articles and respective links to them. 1. iOS Unit Tests - Testing models creation (Part 1) 2. iOS Unit Testing - Testing View Controller (Part 2) 3. iOS Unit