Comfortable new system day! Thanks additionally for all the form needs after final week’s difficulty. I’m feeling a lot better, thanks. ❤️
I need to write about this thread on the Swift boards this week. The title, “A New Strategy to Testing in Swift”, and the authors being Developer Instruments and XCTest crew members was sufficient to make this vital, however the content material is even higher.
XCTest is a wonderful testing framework. It has all it is advisable to write every thing from a few particular person unit checks to large check suites with hundreds. Exterior of some additions yearly, although, it has seemed 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 bundle 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 crew are in search of 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 up to now, 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 check 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 positive this new testing library will likely be great and grow to be the de-facto testing answer for Swift. Nonetheless, I additionally hope the combination between it and Xcode will likely be open to different testing frameworks. There are hints within the doc that time in direction of this being on the crew’s thoughts, so I don’t assume it’s out of the query. If that’s the case, I can see this ushering in a brand new period of incredible testing instruments for Swift along with this library.
Dave Verwer 