The speed of an iOS app is a key to success in the current competitive market. User hates slow running and unresponsive apps so it became very important to check the performance of an iOS app before it goes to the end users. Apple announced performance testing support to XCTest framework at WWDC 2014. XCTest frameworks can measure the performance of the block of Read more…
The major obstacles to continuous delivery are the lack confidence in the release candidate and fear of critical bugs in the production. While releasing an iOS app, there is always fear and risk of bugs in the production. No matter how much time spent on testing in the pre-production environment. It’s because we are unsure that our beta testing environment is Read more…
At WWDC 2017, there was an amazing talk on engineering for testability which focuses on the importance of quality of test code along with app code. The talk introduced various way we can improve testability of apps by writing great test code. The most important bit was a second part where the tips on improving the scalability of UI tests have Read more…
Adding app extensions are the great way to place the power of app wherever users need it. Since Apple launched app extensions, it became very common to have them in iOS apps e.g iMessages extension is very common. While we develop iOS apps, extensions have to be separate targets in an iOS app and we have to code sign them along Read more…
This is the second part of my experience at Photobox Group dealing with Continuous Deployment of iOS apps. In the previous post, we have seen that how we used Fastlane for continuous deployment of iOS app from continuous integration server. One of the most tricky obstacles to Continuous Delivery is the works-on-my-machine phenomenon. Almost every engineer encountered this problem at least once. We Read more…
Note : This post has been published on official Moonpig Engineering blog. Read here At my previous role at Photobox Group, I have enjoyed working on DevOps practices for iOS apps by involving in setting up Continuous Integration servers for iOS deployments and provisioning them with Ansible. We used self-hosted CI solution using Mac Mini servers with TeamCity. In this Read more…
At WWDC 2017, there was a great session on What’s New in Testing which was mainly about new features of XCTest and XCUITest frameworks. The team working on developer tools at Apple has made huge improvements in the area of UI Testing with XCUITest and Continuous Integration with Xcode Server. In this post, we will explore all the new features with Read more…
Apple has recently announced new features in XCUITest framework. One of the great feature is Activities which can be used to organise XCTest actions into human readable activities. The new protocol XCTActivity has been added to the XCTest framework. What is Activities in XCUITests Usually UI Tests perform lot of actions during execution e.g tapping buttons, swiping etc. As of now, XCTest reports inside Xcode Read more…
Finally, Xcode and Github realised that they can’t live without each other and it’s true. Since Apple made few project open-source on GitHub, more people involved and contributed to those project. The latest talk at WWDC 2017 on ‘GitHub and the New Source Control Workflows in Xcode 9‘ exposed how tightly Xcode and Github integrated. Now we can do almost everything Read more…
At WWDC 2017, Apple announces something that made almost every iOS developer smile, a session on ‘What’s New in Signing for Xcode and Xcode Server‘. It’s hard to explain, how easy it becomes to perform Continuous Integration for Apple platforms especially iOS and macOS using Xcode 9 and Xcode Server. CI Before Xcode 9 The iOS Continuous Integration before Xcode Read more…
