An ebook about pragmatic testing strategies. Click below to get the latest epub.

• What & Why of the book

• What is XCTest, how does it work?

• How can I be pragmatic with my testing?

• Types of Testing

  • Unit Testing
  • Behaviour Testing
  • Integration Testing

• Useful terminology

  • Testing Terminology
    • DI
    • Stubs / Mocks
    • Fakes ( + protocols )

• Tooling for the types of testing

  • Unit Testing ( Specta / Expecta Quick / Nimble )
    • Three types of unit tests
  • Mocking / Stubbing ( OCMock / OCMockito )
    • Network Stubbing ( OHTTP / VCRURLConnection )

• Getting Setup

  • Introducing tests into an existing application
  • Starting a new application and using tests
  • My tests are running in my app?
  • Developer Operations aka Automation

• Techniques for keeping testing code sane

  • Nested Before / After usage
  • Creation of app-centric it blocks
  • Fixtures / Factories

• Techniques for avoiding Async Testing

  • Networking in View Controllers ( Network Models )
  • Animations
  • Dispatch Asyncs ( ar_dispatch etc )
  • will / XCTest 6

• Techniques for testing different aspects of the app

  • Views ( Snapshots )
  • User interactions
  • iPad / iPhone

• Core Data

  • Stubbed Core Data Contexts
  • Testing Migrations

• Testing Common Cocoa Patterns

  • Delegate / Protocols
  • Singletons
  • Notifications
  • KVO
  • Networking
  • MVC

• Making libraries to get annoying tests out of your app

• Using Xcode pragmatically

• Improving Xcode

• Expanding on Specta / Expecta

• Test Driven Development

• Swift

• Recommended

  • Books
  • Websites
  • Twitter Follows

• OSS Testing in iOS

  • RestKit + AFNetworking
  • Moya / Eidolon

• Eigen

The latest epub copy can be generated by running ruby generate.rb