Automated Interactive Testing for iOSRob Bajorek - Code 42 Software

rob@code42.com

Topics

• Interactive testing

• The tools

• Demo and walkthrough

Interactive Testing

Unit tests- (void)testClearNonPersistentCredentialsDoesNotClearPrivatePasswordPersistent {

[self helper_setTestCredentialsPersistent:YES]; [self helper_setUpAccountTypePrivatePasswordPersistent:YES]; CPConfigService *cs = [[CPConfigService alloc] init]; [cs clearNonPersistentCredentials]; GHAssertEqualStrings(cs.dataPassword, testDataPassword, @"private password incorrectly cleared (%@)", cs.dataPassword);}

- (void)testClearNonPersistentCredentialsClearsPrivatePasswordNonPersistent { [self helper_setTestCredentialsPersistent:YES]; [self helper_setUpAccountTypePrivatePasswordPersistent:NO]; CPConfigService *cs = [[CPConfigService alloc] init]; [cs clearNonPersistentCredentials]; GHAssertNil(cs.dataPassword, @"private password not cleared (%@)", cs.dataPassword);}

Unit tests can pay for themselves over time

Unit tests are easy to automate

Continuous Integration

What’s missing?

Interactive testing is...

• time-consuming

• boring

• error-prone

Automate your interactive testing

You still need people

The Tools

• UI Automation

• CoffeeScript

• Accessibility

• Zucchini

UI Automation

• UI Automation Reference Collection

CoffeeScript

• http://coffeescript.org

Accessibility

• Accessibility Programming Guide for iOS

Zucchini

• http://www.zucchiniframework.org

Natural languagescript

Then on the "Browse" screen:

Download file "Minneapolis.jpg"

Tap cell "Minneapolis.jpg" in the table

Then on the "Viewer" screen:

Verify navigation bar title is "Minneapolis.jpg"

Tap "Back"

Then on the "Browse" screen:

Tap "Home"

Then on the "Home" screen:

Tap "Sign Out"

Demo

• Brief install advice

• Project setup

• Example “smoke test”

• Walkthrough

Prerequisites

• See instructions at www.zucchiniframework.org

• Homebrew / MacPorts

• ImageMagick

• CoffeeScript

Installing Zucchini

• https://github.com/playup/zucchini

• https://github.com/rajbeniwal/zucchini-demo

Demo and Walkthrough

Conclusion

• Start at www.zucchiniframework.org

• Use the UI Automation Reference for help

• Get to know UIAElement

• ‘Show all elements’: -> view.logElementTree()

Thank you!