Quality Coding: Unit Testing and TDD for iOS Developers

We started from zero TDD

Jon really helped me understand what I should be testing when I didn't know where to start. My team started from zero TDD and my successes in it have inspired the rest of the team to start.

Oliver Foggin Senior iOS developer

How to Write Clean Code

Unit Testing

A robust suite of unit tests acts as a safety harness, giving you courage to make bold changes. But there’s an art to making tests that give you useful information, while keeping the tests themselves readable & maintainable.

TDD

Unit tests written after production code are hard to write, and may only confirm your biases. Test Driven Development shapes production code in response to tests, in an evolutionary manner. The secret sauce? Continuous Refactoring.

Design

We can’t just bang code together and expect it to be testable. Testability must be designed in. That design brings other benefits, making it easier to modify the code. The ultimate goal? Drive down your cost of change.

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The single biggest influence

Jon approaches software as a craftsman. In my years as a professional, learning from Jon has probably been the single biggest influence on the way I write software today.

Rick Van Voorden
iPhone Developer

All of my iOS changes are now covered by unit tests

When I was just starting with unit testing, I attended a talk from Jon on the different types of unit testing. Jon really helped me understand how all of the pieces come together. I now ensure that all of my iOS code has changes that are covered by unit tests. A lot of Jon's posts on Quality Coding help with understanding ways in which you can write tests for tricky components unique to your ecosystem.

Orta Therox
Head of Mobile at Artsy