Episode #93
Jun 14, 2021
58m
1h 1m

Test-Driven Development in Swift with Gio Lodi

In this episode, Leo is joined by Gio Lodi, author of Test-Driven Development in Swift with SwiftUI and Combine. We talk about how to do TDD with Swift but also SwiftUI and Combine as well as the new features revealed at WWDC 2021 like Async/Await, Xcode Cloud, expected failures, and test repetitions.

Guest

Gio Lodi - gio.codes

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Related Links

How to test Swift async/await code with XCTest by Gio
xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code by Gerard Meszaros
What's a Test Double?
What's New in Testing talk by Gio from Melbourne CocoaHeads - June 10th 2021
- Slides from talk
Dependency Inversion Principle
CombineAsyncually
dimsumthinking.com by Daniel Steinberg
Leo Dion - Combine-ing the Old with the New from 360iDev 2019 (on creating Publisher Factories/Publicists)
Xcode Cloud Beta Signup

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TDD Thoughts from WWDC 2021

Is Xcode Cloud Ready?
Who's the target audience for Xcode Cloud?
On Testing with Async/Await
Combine vs Async/Await
How to expect failures in Xcode 12.5
Testing Repetitions

TDD, SwiftUI & Combine

Why do TDD now in Swift?
Difficulties adopting it later in project
TDD in SwiftUI vs UIKit
Isolating Systems with TDD
What are the different types of Test Doubles?

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