Update: Added section ‘Automated testing for iOS4’
As a professional tester my suggestion is that you should have a healthy mix of automated and manual testing. The Examples below are in .net but it should be easy to find a tool for whatever technique you are using.
AUTOMATED TESTING
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Unit Testing
Use NUnit to test your classes, functions and interaction between them.
http://www.nunit.org/index.php -
Automated Functional Testing
If it’s possible you should automate a lot of the functional testing. Some frame works have functional testing built into them. Otherwise you have to use a tool for it. If you are developing web sites/applications you might want to look at Selenium.
http://www.peterkrantz.com/2005/selenium-for-aspnet/ -
Continuous Integration
Use CI to make sure all your automated tests run every time someone in your team makes a commit to the project.
http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html -
Automated testing for iOS4
Automate the testing of your application by scripting touch events using the new UIAutomation Instrument.
Some links:- http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1646-how-to-use-uiautomation-to-create-iphone-ui-tests/
- http://cocoawithlove.com/2008/11/automated-user-interface-testing-on.html
- http://alexvollmer.com/posts/2010/07/03/working-with-uiautomation/
MANUAL TESTING
As much as I love automated testing it is, IMHO, not a substitute for manual testing. The main reason being that an automated can only do what it is told and only verify what it has been informed to view as pass/fail. A human can use it’s intelligence to find faults and raise questions that appear while testing something else.
- Exploratory Testing
ET is a very low cost and effective way to find defects in a project. It take advantage of the intelligence of a human being and a teaches the testers/developers more about the project than any other testing technique i know of. Doing an ET session aimed at every feature deployed in the test environment is not only an effective way to find problems fast, but also a good way to learn and fun!
http://www.satisfice.com/articles/et-article.pdf