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It’s Time for Snapshot Testing

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I love the idea of snapshot testing. It’s a simple way to automatically test an app’s UI.

It works like this:

  1. Set the app up in a certain state and take a screenshot. Save the screenshot. 📸
  2. Next time when you run the same test, you compare screenshots. 📷 📸
  3. If something changed unexpectedly, then you know there’s trouble. 💥

Here’s a nice series about how to do it for iOS/ Xcode.

👉 Snapshot Testing. Testing the UI and Beyond (Part 1)

And GitHub: swift-snapshot-testing

The coolest thing is that you actually upload your screenshots in any new pull requests, so you can literally see what the change is all about (“The perfect pull request”). 🤯

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Via iOS Dev Weekly.

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How (The Heck) To Test Push Notifications

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You know those notifications you get on your phone from Medium, Nextdoor, or NPR? They’re surprisingly hard to develop and test. A lot happens to get that message onto your phone.

And testing them quickly and thoroughly without impacting people you don’t want to impact can be a challenge. So here’s a little guide to the latest way to test push notifications on iOS.

👉 How to test push notifications in simulator and production iOS apps

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Via iOS Dev Weekly.

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Playbook

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Developing features for a large, established app, I often run get slowed down trying to throw together a new screen. You have to find the right spot in the code to update, build the whole app (not just what you changed), log in, and drill down to the right spot to try out your creation. Something’s off? Do it all over again.

Which is why I love the idea of the Playbook library, which is “a library that provides a sandbox for building UI components without having to worry about application-specific dependencies.” Yass! 🤟

👉 Playbook on GitHub

Supports both SwiftUI and UIKit.

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