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Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803232485

Pages 280 pages

Edition 4th Edition

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Author (1):

Dr. Dominik Hauser

Preface

1. Section 1 –The Basics of Test-Driven iOS Development

2. Chapter 1: Your First Unit Tests

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Test-Driven Development

4. Chapter 3: Test-Driven Development in Xcode

5. Section 2 –The Data Model

6. Chapter 4: The App We Are Going to Build

7. Chapter 5: Building a Structure for ToDo Items

8. Chapter 6: Testing, Loading, and Saving Data

9. Section 3 –Views and View Controllers

10. Chapter 7: Building a Table View Controller for the To-Do Items

11. Chapter 8: Building a Simple Detail View

12. Chapter 9: Test-Driven Input View in SwiftUI

13. Section 4 –Networking and Navigation

14. Chapter 10: Testing Networking Code

15. Chapter 11: Easy Navigation with Coordinators

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

The disadvantages of TDD

Just like everything else in the world, TDD has some disadvantages. The main ones are listed here:

No silver bullet: Tests help to find bugs, but they can't find all bugs that you introduce in the test code and implementation code. If you haven't understood the problem you need to solve, writing tests most probably won't help.
It seems slower at the beginning: When you start TDD, you will get the feeling that it takes longer to make easy implementations. You need to think about the interfaces, write the test code, and run the tests before you can finally start writing the code.
All the members of a team need to do it: As TDD influences the design of code, it is recommended that either all the members of a team use TDD or no one at all. In addition to this, it's sometimes difficult to justify TDD to management because they often have the feeling that the implementation of new features takes longer if developers write code...

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