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Monthly Archives: July 2005

Xcode: Unit Testing Cocoa Applications

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Yesterday, I talked about how to add unit tests to Cocoa frameworks using Xcode. There’s only a little more set-up required to add tests to Objective-C Cocoa applications. First, turn off ZeroLink for the application target you want to test. Just as with a framework, your unit tests will be built as a test bundle […]

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Xcode: Debugging Cocoa framework unit tests

Saturday, July 23, 2005

So you’ve set up unit testing for your Objective-C Cocoa framework and it’s been working great. But now you’ve written a test and it fails, and you can’t figure out why. It’s time to break out the debugger, but how, exactly, do you do that? Your unit tests are built as a bundle, and you […]

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Xcode: Unit Testing Cocoa frameworks

Saturday, July 23, 2005

It’s straightforward to write unit tests for Objective-C Cocoa frameworks with Xcode 2.1 and later. First, turn off ZeroLink when building your framework. ZeroLink is a great technology, but you can’t link against something that’s built with ZeroLink, and that’s exactly what your unit tests are going to do. Note: You only need to do […]

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Trust, but verify.

Sunday, July 17, 2005

President Reagan, for all his faults, gave us a very useful aphorism in describing his approach to diplomacy with the Soviet Union: “Trust, but verify.” This is also a very useful approach to take when writing unit tests when you’re working with a framework, particularly when you’re developing a human interface. For example, Cocoa uses […]

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Xcode: Unit Testing

Saturday, July 16, 2005

Xcode 2.1 introduced integrated unit testing to the Xcode IDE. Xcode includes two unit testing frameworks, target templates for setting up test bundle targets, and infrastructure for running unit tests every time you build your project and reporting their results in the Build Results window just like compilers and linkers do. With Xcode unit testing, […]

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