Setting up Continuous Delivery Pipelines for platforms wasn’t a straightforward task, it was more challenging when it comes to scripting the pipelines in the code. It might be because of native Apple developer tools like xcodebuild, agvtool, security, transporter, altool etc wasn’t easy to understand to form pipelines as a Read more…
At WWDC18, there was a session on What’s New in Testing describing new features in Code Coverage, XCTest, and XCUITests. It was presented by the Honza and Ethan. This session consists of following xccov for Code Coverage Test Selection from Scheme Randomising Tests Parallelising Tests Tips for Parallelising Tests Fortunately, I Read more…
Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2018 has been started this week. As promised, I will be writing series of blog posts on the WWDC contents as it’s being announced. There were lots of announcements about new software like iOS12, watchOS5 etc. However, there was another session Platforms State of Read more…
There is a lot of excitement about Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC 2018) that kicks off next week on 4th June 2018. Unfortunately, we don’t have access to Apple’s roadmap so it’s always exciting to see what they are going to show us in the WWDC, apart from some Read more…
Before releasing an iOS app to Apple App Store, it’s very common to have a build that has been targeted to internal audience i.e QA engineers, Product Owners that will run only on specific provisioned devices. During that process, you might have heard the words like DEBUG or RELEASE configuration. Read more…
Apple has introduced XCTest framework to create unit, integration, performance and UI tests for various Apple platforms. XCUITest is a sexy extension on top of XCTest which allow developers to write UI Tests for iOS and macOS apps. Since launched in WWDC 2015, XCUITest got a lot of attention and enhancement. It uses Swift Read more…
Sauce Labs has just announced support to run XCUITests on their own device farm. They have announced the support on their official blog. As Apple’s own Xcode UI Testing framework getting popular, the cloud testing services can not vendors like Sauce Labs, BrowserStack cannot ignore this fact. In the previous post, we Read more…
Apple has launched Xcode UI Testing solution in WWDC15, since then it is becoming the first choice for iOS developers to write unit and UI tests using the same framework. Previously, the frameworks like Appium and Calabash being used by QA engineers to automate iOS application testing. These frameworks allow Read more…
There is no doubt that Swift is an awesome language for developing native apps for Apple platforms like iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. However, being a new language, Swift lacks a lot of testing features like we see in other programming languages like Ruby. Mocking classes with protocols in Swift Read more…
Apple’s XCUITest framework is a hot and emerging framework for UI automation of iOS apps. Since launched in WWDC 2015, it got a lot of attention and enhancement. It allows us to write UI tests for iOS apps in Swift which makes it easy for iOS developers to add UI Read more…