Please can someone tell me how to have the test harness not instantiate the whole app? My app is event driven, and it sends a bunch of events through when it starts up that mess with my tests. I use Xcode 4’s built-in testing. App instantiation may seem like a pain, but as I write … Read more
Thanks to Shaggy Frog’s answer we know that the mysterious “migrator” mentioned in the Xcode release notes is a wizard launched by selecting “Edit > Refactor > Convert To XCTest”. I am going to write about my experience with this wizard in two parts. The first part is an incomplete answer to the primary question, … Read more
You need to: Select the target you want to test Go to Test navigation tab Right-click on test target you want to enable Click on Enable [name_of_your_target]
Update: I’ve improved on this answer in two ways: it’s now a screencast, and I switched from property injection to constructor injection. See How to Get Started with Objective-C TDD The tricky part is that the method has a dependency on an external object, NSUserDefaults. We don’t want to use NSUserDefaults directly. Instead, we need … Read more
Found only one solution for this problem. When I build my unit-tests, the main bundle’s path is not equal to my project’s bundle (created .app file). Moreover, it’s not equal to LogicTests bundle (created LogicTests.octest file). Main bundle for unit-tests is something like /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.1.3.sdk/Developer/usr/bin. And that’s why program can’t find necessary resources. And the final … Read more
I have also had quite a bit of trouble with Xcode 5’s tests. It still seems quite buggy with some odd behaviour – however I have found the definitive reason your particular XCTAssertEqual isn’t working. If we have a look at the test code we see it actually does the following (taken directly from XCTestsAssertionsImpl.h … Read more
Important Note With Xcode 5.1 (perhaps earlier Xcode as well) test is a valid build action. We were able to replace the entire hack below with a call to xcodebuild using the build action of test and with appropriate -destination options. man xcodebuild for more info. The information below is left here for posterity I … Read more
Follow the instructions here. It doesn’t require you to add any files to compile sources. I first missed that “Symbols Hidden by Default=NO” should be for your app target, not test target. It worked for me anyway ™.
Remember that there’s actually no such thing as “private methods” in Objective-C, and it’s not just because it’s a dynamic language. By design, Objective-C has visibility modifiers for ivars, but not for methods — it’s not by accident that you can call any method you like. @Peter‘s suggestion is a great one. To complement his … Read more