October 2009 Archives

One of the themes of my C4 unit testing talk was that unit testing isn’t as prominent in the Cocoa development community as it is in others, such as Java and Ruby. After I gave my presentation, I was able to talk to other people about unit testing and their experiences with it. I was pleased to hear that a lot of people are doing unit testing and want to do more of it.

Unfortunately, a lot of the discussions also revolved around “I’d like to start, but I just have a hard time getting going with Xcode” or some other Xcode or OCUnit limitation that got in their way. While I am grateful for Xcode’s unit testing integration, coming from IntelliJ’s IDEA for Java, which had great testing integration, it does leave a lot to be desired.