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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift

You're reading from   Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift Create fully-featured and highly functional iOS apps by writing tests first

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880735
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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TDD in existing projects


You most probably already have projects that have been implemented without any tests. It is much harder to add tests to an existing project than it is to write them first. When you don't keep in mind that you need to write a test for code sometime in the future, the code itself becomes hard to test. It is often easier to tie the different parts of the app together instead of keeping them separated with a clear and defined interface to each other. As a result, it becomes hard to separate micro features in order to test them with unit tests. In addition to this, testing methods with many side effects can be cumbersome to deal with.

When writing the tests initially, you automatically think about the tests. The code naturally becomes easier to test and more modular.

Back to your existing projects. What could you do to add tests? The way to go is to start small. Don't rewrite all the methods using TDD. This won't work, and you will most probably remove all the tests when...

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