Test or Go Fishing!
Test or Go Fishing!
a guide on how to write better Swift for iOS using Test Driven Development
About the Book
This book is aimed at developers of all skills. Beginners will enjoy a gentle introduction into the tools and language as well as practical examples to understand tricky concepts. If this is the first time you've ventured outside PHP then you'll need to work extra hard to forget it.
Obviously, being already skilled in another serious programming language will help immensely. Advanced iOS developers will also benefit from revisiting the basics. Moreover, the structure of this book will encourage them to take a step back and think about how they build their apps and the things they take for granted.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction 7
1.1 Why another iOS book 7
1.2 Audience & technologies 7
1.3 The title 8
1.4 Feedback 8
Chapter 2. Huh?! Testing? 9
2.1 What is Test-Driven Development? 9
2.2 Feature, Red, Green, Refactor 10
2.3 Testing in iOS 12
2.4 Still a debatable topic 14
Chapter 3. The Plan 16
3.1 Our end goal 16
3.2 MVC, MVP, MVVM 16
3.3 System components 19
3.4 Last piece of the puzzle: interface prototyping 21
3.5 Tasks list screen 22
Chapter 4. The Task 24
4.1 TDD in Xcode Playgrounds 24
4.2 A first test: tasks can be created 25
4.3 setUp() and tearDown() 27
4.4 Requirement: a task must have a name 29
4.5 Requirement: a task can have a due date 31
4.6 Requirement: a task can be completed 32
Chapter 5. The TaskManager 36
5.1 Requirement: has a task manager 36
5.2 Requirement: manages tasks 37
5.3 Refactoring 40
5.4 TaskManager Singleton 44
5.5 Introducing Realm 49
5.6 Task persistence 57
5.7 The complete source 59
Chapter 6. Migrating to an Xcode project 63
Appendix A – Apple development environment 64
Appendix B – Swift and the iOS SDKs 64
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