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 have seen the various cloud-based device testing options for XCUITests. 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 writing user interface tests using crazy languages like Java, Ruby and Read more…
Recently, there are various companies looking BDD supporting tools for iOS apps written in Swift. As there is no official support from Cucumber for Swift so most of them are struggling to find right BDD tool for Swift project. This post will highlight some of the tools that support BDD in the Swift applications. BDD a.k.a Behaviour Driven Development is a process Read more…
Every iOS app requires a certificate from Apple to publish apps to the App Store. The certificates are required to code sign iOS apps. Apple usually offers development certificate to distribute apps in debug mode on certain devices and distribution certificate to distribute the app to App Store. The certificate is at the core of code signing iOS apps. In 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 is terribly hard and there are limited options to stub Read more…
Apple has released new command line tool xccov with Xcode 9.3 for inspecting the contents of Xcode code coverage reports. Unfortunately, there isn’t any web documentation yet, so we have to type man xccov in the terminal to get more information about this command line tool. This utility requires Xcode 9.3 and command-line tools shipped with Xcode 9.3. With xccov , we can generate 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 tests for the iOS applications for both iPhone and iPads. Read more…
Fastlane tools automate entire iOS CI/CD pipelines and allow us to keep an iOS infrastructure as code. Fastlane is set of tools to automate almost everything from analyzing, building, testing, code signing and archiving iOS apps. However, if you look inside, it’s nothing but a Ruby layer on top of native Apple developer tools. It might be possible that Fastlane Read more…
An IT market has been shaken by the wave of Artificial Intelligent, Machine Learning (AI/ML) and Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices. The DevOps and CI/CD movement made the drastic change in the roles of software engineers and it highly impacted QA engineers. The testing at the pace of DevOps is impossible using the traditional QA methodologies and QA engineers Read more…
Apple may not like the fact that iOS developers adding the third-party dependencies to the iOS projects. Apple’s core technologies have provided enough frameworks and tools with healthy documentation that developers can use to build and distribute iOS apps. This might be the reason the Apple didn’t have any official package manager to manage dependency for iOS apps yet. However, this Read more…
