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Building Apple Watch Projects

You're reading from  Building Apple Watch Projects

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887369
Pages 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Stuart Grimshaw Stuart Grimshaw
Profile icon Stuart Grimshaw

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Building Apple Watch Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Exploring the New Platform 2. Hello Watch 3. C-Quence – A Memory Game 4. Expanding on C-Quence 5. On Q – A Productivity App 6. Watching the Weather 7. Plot Buddy – All about Location 8. Images, Animation, and Sound 9. Wear It, Test It, Tweak It, Ship It 10. This Is Only the Beginning Index

Testing and tweaking


One of the hardest things in developing software is testing its functionality to the limit. There is something inherently difficult about trying to provoke your own code into failing your own tests, but it is absolutely imperative that you cover as many as possible of the scenarios that the app could come up against. Users are so unpredictable.

The first test

With a simple app such as this one, this is not such an insuperable task. Play the game over and over, trying to catch not only the usual sequence of actions that you expect your users to go through, but also all those niggly edge cases, such as:

  • User fails at the first guess

  • User taps incessantly on the screen

  • User manages an incredibly long sequence (pen and paper might help—or just a lot of practice)

  • User switches to a different app and then returns

  • Anything else you can think of

  • Anything that anybody else can think of

The first bug

Now, if you have tested your creation on a real Apple Watch, you may have noticed that...

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