Automated Testingwith GHUnit and KIF

Michele TitoloSr. Mobile Engineer / Prolific Interactive

@micheletitolo

Why test your code?

Types of Frameworks

Types of Frameworks

• Unit Testing

Types of Frameworks

• Unit Testing

• UI Testing

Types of Frameworks

Choosing Frameworks

Unit

Unit

• OCUnit/SenTestKit

Unit

• OCUnit/SenTestKit

• GHUnit

Unit

UI

UI

• UIAutomation

UI

• UIAutomation

• Frank

UI

• UIAutomation

• Frank

• KIF

UI

GHUnit

Demo

Setup

GHUnit has it’s own target

GHTestCase

Automation

Apple keeps breaking testing from CLI

JUnit test results

Gotchas

Vertical slices of functionality

Apple breaks things

UI Testing is difficult

KIF

Demo

Setup

KIF has it’s own target

KIFTestController

KIFTestScenario & KIFTestStep

Automation

ios-simhttps://github.com/phonegap/ios-sim

/usr/local/bin/ios-sim launch $APPFILE --family ipad > ! ! /tmp/KIF-ipad-$$.out 2>&1

Test Output

cp "`grep "JUNIT XML RESULTS AT " /tmp/KIF-ipad-$$.out | sed 's/.*JUNIT XML RESULTS AT //'`" 'test-reports/KIF-ipad-results.xml'

Gotchas

[scenario addStep:[KIFTestStep stepToWaitForTimeInterval:1 ! description:@"wait"]];

[scenario addStep:[KIFTestStep !! stepToWaitForViewWithAccessibilityLabel:@"Table"]];

[KIFTestScenario setDefaultStepsToSetUp:[KIFTestStep ! setupSteps]];

[scenario addStepsFromArray:[LoginTestStep ! stepsToLoginWithEmail:TEST_EMAIL ! password:TEST_PASSWORD]];

[scenario addStep:[KIFTestStep !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! stepToScrollToItemWithAccessibilityLabel:@"Settings"]];

In Summary

Do tests help you write better code?

Do tests help you write better code?Yes.

Do writing tests add to dev time?

Do writing tests add to dev time?Yes.

Is testing worth the extra time?

Is testing worth the extra time?Absolutely.

The End

Michele Titolo@micheletitolo

https://github.com/mtitolo/UICatalog-Tests