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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift 4

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788475709
Length 222 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Enabling code coverage

Measuring the code coverage of our tests gives us a feeling of completeness about our test suite. While following the TDD workflow, as we don't write any code without a failing test, the code coverage of our project should be very high. We don't expect it to be 100%, meaning that all the code paths are executed in the tests because the static analyzer forces us to write code that we don't expect to be executed. For example, in the code we wrote, we often used guard to make sure that the value we wanted to access was not nil. We could have written tests for a case where the value was nil. But in my opinion, in most cases these tests give no additional value.

Nevertheless, we will examine the parts of the project without code coverage and discuss whether we need to add tests to cover them.

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