High traffic iOS apps likely to experience crashes when users are using them. The crash is the process in which app gets killed itself and become unusable. The crash may be intermittent or reproducible, if the crash happens at the key user journey then the business is likely to lose Read more…
Apple has released a new command line tool xccov last year for inspecting the contents of Xcode code coverage reports. With xccov , we can generate Xcode code coverage reports in the human-readable format as well as machine representable format like JSON without using third-party tools. In our previous post, we looked Read more…
We are glad to announce that XCTEQ will be speaking at the SauceCon 2019 on the topic of “Fashionable XCUITests for iOS Apps” covering following topics Introduction to XCUITest How XCUITest, different from Appium, Calabash etc XCUITests Features with Xcode 10+ Protocol-oriented approach for the XCUITest Tips for writing CI-friendly Read more…
CocoaPods has been magical dependency managers for iOS developer so far. Very few developers understand what happens under the hood when they run pod install command. However, CocoaPods has been proved to be painless dependency manager in the iOS ecosystem. Personally, I had love/hate relationship with CocoaPods so I wrote a blog Read more…
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are the booming topics in the software industry at the moment. The use of AI/ML for testing apps also becoming the trend as there are many companies working to solve the testing challenges using AI/ML. The companies like mabl, test.ai, Bitbar, Applitools + many more are Read more…
An Xcode is an integral part of the iOS application development. As an iOS Developer, we work with Xcode most of the time. In case of something unexpected, we quit and restart Xcode which magically fixes our problems most of the time. Normally we open Xcode from the Spotlight, Dock Read more…
The process of uploading the iOS binary to App Store is time-consuming and boring. On top of this, Apple didn’t provide the better options to upload the binary to App Store. As of now, we have used various tools to upload .ipa files to App Store Connect. The most common method Read more…
Apple released Xcode New Build System with Xcode 9 in the preview mode. It wasn’t activated by default at that time. With Xcode 10, new build system activated by default, by adopting the new build system you might have faced some of the issues in your existing iOS projects. Apple is Read more…
Apple is truly investing in testing tools and technologies which is a great thing for app developers. There is no doubt that everyone appreciates their work to motivate them to keep doing it. Apple announced parallel testing support for XCTest framework at the WWDC 2018, platform state of union session. There Read more…
Xcode Server is a continuous integration service launched by Apple a few years back. In the previous post about Xcode Server and Xcode 9, we have covered most of the major enhancement that has been announced at WWDC 2017 in the session on ‘What’s New in Signing for Xcode and Xcode Server‘ Read more…