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…
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 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 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 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 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…
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 Read more…
An every mature and modern programming languages come with an official solution for code distribution to share and reuse code that has been already written. The mechanism to share, distribute and re-use the code is usually handled by the package manager. The examples of popular package managers are RubyGems for Ruby, Composer for PHP, NPM for Read more…
Using XCUITest framework for automation of iOS apps makes sure that app is working as expected from the users points of view. Since, Apple launched the UI testing support in WWDC 2015, this framework getting popular among iOS developers as they can now write UI tests in Swift and XCTest Read more…
Apple open-sourced Swift programming language and whole source code is now available on Github. There are thousands of programming languages available in the world and hundreds of on the way but underlying basics of programming languages remains the same. It’s very important to understand the roots so that you can Read more…