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Unit testing Cocoa user interfaces: Use Check Methods

Sunday, July 5, 2009

In the past, I’ve talked about ways to easily write unit tests for Cocoa applications, including [tests for user interfaces using target-action][1] and [tests for interfaces using Cocoa bindings][2]. There are some strategies you can apply to make writing tests for Cocoa code even easier, though. They’re just straightforward object-oriented programming, but sometimes we can […]

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Unit testing Cocoa user interfaces: Cocoa Bindings

Saturday, July 7, 2007

About a year ago, I wrote about unit testing target-action connections for Cocoa user interfaces. That covers the traditional mechanism by which user interfaces have typically been constructed in Cocoa since the NeXTstep days. However, with the release of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther we’ve had a newer interface technology available — Cocoa bindings — […]

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Unit testing Cocoa user interfaces: Target-Action

Monday, July 3, 2006

It’s really great to see that a lot of people are adopting unit testing for their projects and dramatically improving their quality. Test-driven development and agile development methodologies built around it are really taking off. However, a lot of people still feel that their user interface is difficult to test through code, and either requires […]

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Making Better Games with Test-Driven Development

Monday, March 13, 2006

Noel Llopis (Games from Within) and Sean Houghton, Backwards Is Forward: Making Better Games with Test-Driven Development: > One of the questions we had when we jumped into TDD is > whether it was going to hold for high-level code. We had > seen in practice from previous projects that we can > certainly do […]

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