Topics

• UI Testing
• Swift Testing
• Objective-C Testing
• iOS Tips
• Ruby
• Turbolinks
• Board Games
• Me

UI Testing

• Waiting in XCTest January 25

  Waiting is hard, and waiting in Xcode is no exception. Learn a new approach with classes introduced in Xcode 8.3.

• UI Testing with Stubbed Network Data March 4

  Learn how to stub network data when running UI Tests with the magic of some “secret” XCTest APIs.

• UI Testing Cheat Sheet and Examples September 14

  Answers to common “How do I test this with UI Testing?” questions. A quick reference for everything from tapping buttons to reordering table cells.

• Three Ways UI Testing Just Made Test-Driven Development Even Better August 3

  Generic querying syntax, first-class support, and native asynchronous assertions make for a great TDD experience on iOS.

• UI Testing in Xcode 7 June 29

  How to navigate around an undocumented but powerful framework in iOS 9.

Swift Testing

• Better Unit Testing with Swift March 31

  Ideas and best practices for real world Swift testing, including protocols, dependency injection, and Equatable.

• How to Test UIAlertController August 7

  Learn how to test UIAlertController with protocols, mocks, and dependecy injection. No swizzling required.

• Testing Dictionaries with Swift and XCTest May 31

  A type-safe approach to testing dictionaries in Swift with clean failure messages.

• Flattening Asynchronous Tests February 1

  Shave time off your test suite by flattening asynchronous tests. Learn how to mock more of NSURLSession to test response data, network errors, and status codes.

• Mocking Classes You Don't Own January 11

  Not owning a class doesn't mean you can't mock it! Learn how to unit test NSURLSession with Swift and protocol-oriented programming.

• Custom Helpers in XCTest September 21

  How to extract XCTest helper methods and keep sane failure messages.

Objective-C Testing

• Capture Completion Blocks with Cedar BDD July 20

  Flatten out your asynchronous tests with and_do_block().

• iOS: One Macro to Help Dependency Injection July 12

  Better dependency injection on iOS with NS_UNAVAILABLE.

• Test Driving UITableViews with Cedar → April 20

  Two different approaches to testing tables in iOS with behavior-driven testing framework, Cedar.

iOS Tips

• Evenly Spaced Views with Auto Layout in iOS → April 16

  Visual guide to laying out multiple views that look great on all screen sizes with Interface Builder.

• NSDate Manipulation in iOS 8 February 2

  Create and modify dates by taking advantage of iOS 8's NSCalendar APIs.

• Building NSURLs with NSURLQueryItems October 26

  Build and manipulate complex URLs with NSURLQueryItems. No more ugly string concatenation to append query items to URLs.

Ruby

• I Just Deleted Thousands of Records from Production 😬 March 18

  1249 records in prod. 3775 records in dev. Something's not right.

• How to Test PDFs with Capybara July 22

  Use familiar HTML testing tools to test drive PDF generation by combining wicked_pdf with some asset pipeline knowledge.

Turbolinks

• BeerMenus & Turbolinks March 16

  How our small team supports 600k+ monthly users on four platforms with Turbolinks.

Board Games

• How to play board games online with your friends April 23

  BGA, TTS, Steam?! This guide is for anyone who wants to play board games online with your friends but isn’t sure where to start.

• Great Two-Player Board Games March 15

  Deck-builders, card games, tile placement, and more. Some of my favorite board games to play with only two players.

Me

• Where Has Joe Been? August 22

  What has Joe been up to since his last post?

• XCTest Documentation November 11

  Apple has officially sent me a cease and desist letter to take down my host of the XCTest Documentation.

• SwiftCoders Podcast September 26

  Earlier this month week I spoke on the SwiftCoders podcast. The host and I talked about getting started in Swift, and, obviously, testing.

• Joe's Favorite Things January 18

  All the stuff I'm enjoying right now: iOS apps and games, Mac productivity apps, card games, and programming books.

• Concepts in Code Podcast: Testing December 9

  Last week I spoke on the Concepts in Code podcast. The cohosts and I chatted about testing in Swift, TDD, and pair programming.