Completely happy new gadget day! Thanks additionally for all the form needs after final week’s problem. I’m feeling significantly better, thanks. ❤️
I need to write about this thread on the Swift boards this week. The title, “A New Method to Testing in Swift”, and the authors being Developer Instruments and XCTest staff members was sufficient to make this vital, however the content material is even higher.
XCTest is a advantageous testing framework. It has all it is advisable to write the whole lot from a few particular person unit assessments to large take a look at suites with 1000’s. Outdoors of some additions yearly, although, it has appeared 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 package deal that Apple will develop in public! Even higher, we’re being allowed to see it at a really early stage. I’d advocate beginning by studying the imaginative and prescient doc, however there’s a lot within the repository to discover already. The staff are searching for 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 prior to now, and whereas I really feel very a lot at dwelling with their strategy, I at all times fall off, although, due to how their assessments combine with Xcode’s take a look at 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 certain this new testing library can be fantastic and grow to be the de-facto testing resolution for Swift. Nevertheless, I additionally hope the combination between it and Xcode can be open to different testing frameworks. There are hints within the doc that time in the direction of this being on the staff’s thoughts, so I don’t assume it’s out of the query. In that case, I can see this ushering in a brand new period of improbable testing instruments for Swift along with this library.
Dave Verwer 
