Episode Details

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 

Social Media

Twitter - @brightdigit
Facebook - BrightDigit

Brand New Instagram! - @brightdigit

Full Transcription

Leo Dion (Host): So hey guys, how's it going? 

[00:00:01] Michael Katz (Guest): Great. How are you?

[00:00:02] Leo Dion (Host): Good good, just been trying to catch up with WWDC. What's your general thoughts so far. 

[00:00:07] Michael Katz (Guest): It seems like this is about the biggest one we've had since they introduced Swift. There's just so much stuff. 

[00:00:12] Leo Dion (Host): Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking especially with the UI changes. So have you started investing money to buy a $1000 stand? 

[00:00:20] Michael Katz (Guest): Yeah, I wish. Fortunately at my company, we actually do video editing. We have editing bays already have racks of Mac Pros. So I assume that those will get upgraded with the new machines at the fancy monitor so I can go downstairs and drool over them when I'm not actually. It's working on my MacBook. 

[00:00:36] Leo Dion (Host): Yeah, I mean that's the thing about these devices. They're not for developers like there for video editing like m