Pleased new machine day! Thanks additionally for the entire form needs after final week’s situation. I’m feeling a lot better, thanks. ??
I need to write about this thread on the Swift boards this week. The title, “A New Method to Testing in Swift”, and the authors being Developer Instruments and XCTest workforce members was sufficient to make this vital, however the content material is even higher.
XCTest is a high-quality testing framework. It has all that you must write all the pieces from a few particular person unit checks to very large take a look at suites with 1000’s. Outdoors of some additions yearly, although, it has regarded and felt the identical for a very long time. This thread offers us a sneak peek at a successor to XCTest, and it’s an open-source package deal that Apple will develop in public! Even higher, we’re being allowed to see it at a really early stage. I’d suggest beginning by studying the imaginative and prescient doc, however there’s loads within the repository to discover already. The workforce are on the lookout for suggestions, so please learn it and touch upon the thread. I can’t wait to see the way it develops. ?
I’ve dabbled with Fast and Nimble previously, and whereas I really feel very a lot at house with their strategy, I at all times fall off, although, due to how their checks combine with Xcode’s take a look at reporting characteristic. That’s not the fault of these two (or every other) testing libraries however a symptom of how tightly coupled XCTest and Xcode are.
I’m certain this new testing library shall be great and grow to be the de-facto testing resolution for Swift. Nevertheless, I additionally hope the mixing between it and Xcode shall be open to different testing frameworks. There are hints within the doc that time in direction of this being on the workforce’s thoughts, so I don’t suppose it’s out of the query. If that’s the case, I can see this ushering in a brand new period of improbable testing instruments for Swift along with this library.
Dave Verwer 