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What's in my iOS Toolbox? Part 2

37 points by edsancha 13y ago

javienegas 13y ago
Again that is a very interesting article. Mixed feelings about Cora Data -.-
kumarski 13y ago
Might want to change the title to "Part 2" Parte Segundo or second part sounds a bit unusual. Good content is always king though.
MaxGabriel 13y ago
My personal recommendation on Automated Testing is to use Subliminal https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal Subliminal allows you to write tests in Objective-C that interface directly with your app. This makes your tests be more powerful (can test things not visible to the user, and can simulate activity that UIAutomation can't (like a credit card swipe, which is why KIF was invented)). More amazing is that you get the benefits of static typing. Instead of stringly-typed accessibility identifiers, you can use string constants (NSString * const kIdentifier = @"blah"). It runs by bridging UIAutomation and Objective-C, so its more reliable than KIF, which has to use private API to simulate touches. This doesn't work correctly for gesture recognizers and is very fragile.
- rbritton 13y ago
  I've been using UIAutomation to automate screenshot generation and make it easier to keep support documents up-to-date. Do you know if this works for that? Straight UIAutomation times out a lot doing that and often requires multiple runs to get everything.
  - MaxGabriel 13y ago
    Yes. You can send Javascript to be evaluated by UIAutomation so it has all the capabilities of that UIAutomation does. There's a PR that adds this natively https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal/pull/118 https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal/pull/118, but you can also just implement it yourself quite easily: - (void)captureScreenshotWithFilename:(NSString *)filename { [[SLTerminal sharedTerminal] evalWithFormat:@"UIATarget.localTarget().captureScreenWithName(\"%@\")", [filename slStringByEscapingForJavaScriptLiteral]]; }
ary 13y ago
This series of posts appears to be a somewhat poor copy of another blog (although it is linked). http://benscheirman.com/2013/08/the-ios-developers-toolbelt/ http://benscheirman.com/2013/08/the-ios-developers-toolbelt/
wattjustin 13y ago
My own plug which I apologize for, but there's a good collection of interviews with iOS developers and the tools they use here: http://www.objectivesee.com/ http://www.objectivesee.com/ that I genuinely think anyone reading these comments would find interesting.
austinl 13y ago
Another suggestion (now that this post has been extended) is Mattt's new collection of CLI tools called Nomad http://nomad-cli.com/ http://nomad-cli.com/

37 points by edsancha 13y ago

Again that is a very interesting article. Mixed feelings about Cora Data -.-

Might want to change the title to "Part 2" Parte Segundo or second part sounds a bit unusual. Good content is always king though.

MaxGabriel 13y ago

My personal recommendation on Automated Testing is to use Subliminal https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal Subliminal allows you to write tests in Objective-C that interface directly with your app. This makes your tests be more powerful (can test things not visible to the user, and can simulate activity that UIAutomation can't (like a credit card swipe, which is why KIF was invented)). More amazing is that you get the benefits of static typing. Instead of stringly-typed accessibility identifiers, you can use string constants (NSString * const kIdentifier = @"blah"). It runs by bridging UIAutomation and Objective-C, so its more reliable than KIF, which has to use private API to simulate touches. This doesn't work correctly for gesture recognizers and is very fragile.

rbritton 13y ago
I've been using UIAutomation to automate screenshot generation and make it easier to keep support documents up-to-date. Do you know if this works for that? Straight UIAutomation times out a lot doing that and often requires multiple runs to get everything.
- MaxGabriel 13y ago
  Yes. You can send Javascript to be evaluated by UIAutomation so it has all the capabilities of that UIAutomation does. There's a PR that adds this natively https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal/pull/118 https://github.com/inkling/Subliminal/pull/118, but you can also just implement it yourself quite easily: - (void)captureScreenshotWithFilename:(NSString *)filename { [[SLTerminal sharedTerminal] evalWithFormat:@"UIATarget.localTarget().captureScreenWithName(\"%@\")", [filename slStringByEscapingForJavaScriptLiteral]]; }

ary 13y ago

This series of posts appears to be a somewhat poor copy of another blog (although it is linked). http://benscheirman.com/2013/08/the-ios-developers-toolbelt/ http://benscheirman.com/2013/08/the-ios-developers-toolbelt/

wattjustin 13y ago

My own plug which I apologize for, but there's a good collection of interviews with iOS developers and the tools they use here: http://www.objectivesee.com/ http://www.objectivesee.com/ that I genuinely think anyone reading these comments would find interesting.

austinl 13y ago

Another suggestion (now that this post has been extended) is Mattt's new collection of CLI tools called Nomad http://nomad-cli.com/ http://nomad-cli.com/