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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

The origin of TDD

In 1996, Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, and Ron Jeffries introduced a new software development methodology called Extreme Programming while they were working on the project Comprehensive Compensation System at Chrysler. The word Extreme indicates that the concepts behind Extreme Programming are totally different from the concepts used in software development back then. For many people, these concepts sound extreme even today.

The methodology is based on 12 rules or practices. One of the rules states that developers have to write unit tests and all parts of the software have to be thoroughly tested. All tests have to pass before the software (or a new feature) can be released to customers. The tests should be written before the production code that they test.

This so-called test-first programming led to TDD. As the name suggests, in TDD, tests drive the development. This means that the developer writes code only because there is a test...

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