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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift

You're reading from   Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift Write maintainable, flexible, and extensible code using the power of TDD with Swift 5.5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803232485
Length 280 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 –The Basics of Test-Driven iOS Development
2. Chapter 1: Your First Unit Tests FREE CHAPTER 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

Implementing the ToDoItem struct

To be useful, to-do items need a minimal set of information. In this section, we will create a structure to hold this information while using tests to guide their development.

A to-do app needs a model class/struct to store information for to-do items:

  1. We will start by adding a new test case to the unit test target. Open the to-do project that we created in the Getting started with Xcode section of Chapter 4, The App We Are Going to Build, and select the ToDoTests group.
  2. Go to File | New | File..., navigate to iOS | Source | Unit Test Case Class, and click on Next. Put in the name ToDoItemTests, make it a subclass of XCTestCase, select Swift as the language, and click on Next.
  3. In the next window, click on Create.
  4. Now, delete the ToDoTests.swift template test case.

Adding a title property

A to-do item needs a title. Follow these steps to add one to our ToDoItem struct:

  1. Open ToDoItemTests.swift and add the following...
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