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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift 4 - Third Edition

You're reading from   Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift 4 - Third Edition Write Swift code that is maintainable, flexible, and easily extensible

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475709
Pages 222 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Planning and Structuring Your Test-Driven iOS App

In the previous chapter, you learned how to write unit tests and saw an easy example of TDD. When starting TDD, writing unit tests is easy for most people. The hard part is to transfer knowledge from writing test to driving development. What can be assumed? What should be done before one writes the first test? What should be tested to end up with a complete app?

As a developer, you are used to thinking in terms of code. When you see a feature on the requirement list for an app, your brain already starts to layout the code for this feature. For recurring problems in iOS development (such as building table views), you most probably have already developed your own best practices.

In TDD, you should not think about the code while working on the test. The tests have to describe what the unit under test should do and not how it should...

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