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 […]
Also tagged Cocoa, Objective-C, unit testingXcode 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, […]
Also tagged C++, Carbon, Cocoa, Objective-C, programming, unit testingIn case anyone hasn’t noticed, Xcode 2.1 shipped at WWDC on Monday. It includes a whole slew of new features. First and foremost is, of course, Intel support. Lots of people have said a whole lot about this so I won’t repeat it here. The new feature that will have the most significant and immediate […]
Also tagged Apple, configurations, WWDCThe new Core Data framework and Xcode 2 modeling tools in Tiger are an extremely powerful way to develop great end-user applications quickly. You can even easily generate a human interface for your application that will let you work with its data model with little to no code. To generate an interface, create an empty […]
Also tagged Cocoa, Core Data, Interface BuilderThere’s a question on wrapping code at 80 columns in the Joel on Software Forum. Most of the time, when I see 80 columns as a standard it’s to enable easy printing of the code. However, in this day and age, why are you printing code? I print code occasionally when I need to read […]
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