Name: XCTest
Rating: 8.3 (4 reviews)
Author: Apple

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The XCTest framework is used to write unit tests for Xcode projects that integrate with Xcode's testing workflow. From Apple, the solution enables users to create and run unit tests, performance tests, and UI tests for Xcode project.

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XCTest

Functional Testing Tools suppport continuous, automated, thorough testing of applications, transactional procedures, and user interfaces (UI / GUI) across multiple web, desktop, and mobile platforms.

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We do all our iOS apps/games testing with XCTest. Like Android Studio, Xcode provides tons of software testing capabilities for developers/UX designers that can help to enhance the stability and usability of the apps. Xcode provides XCTest and XCUITest which are extremely helpful for achieving and building better-quality software. Thoroughly tested apps, regardless of whether done at the unit level or UI level, improve the user experience and accelerate the adoption of those sorts of apps.

Basic unit level testing of iOS apps/games and functionalities
Xcode Test Recorder - mostly a feature for UI tests but as XCTest is related with XCUITest the UI recording is possible with Xcode environment.

No cross platform support
Limited Programming Language Support

Xcode Test Recorder feature
Native iOS Language Support
Easy to Learn and implement

Mostly positive and almost a must to have for all our app testing
Making our UI/UX seamless with test recording so we can launch a bug free apps

Im a Fullstack Mobile developer, I usually make Android apps, but I have experience with Swift, Objective-C, and iOS; XCTest has been really useful for Unit Testing for those platforms and languages. Before the use of XCTest, we had a lot of issues when we changed or made refactors on the code, and we needed to stop to fix all of those issues, but since we added XCTest, we don't need to worry about that, because XCTest will tell us what was broken.

Is easy to learn and implement.
Is faster than others competitors.
Cool integration with UI Tests.
Swift Native language.

Its only for iOS apps.
Only Swift and Objective-C language.
Some stability issues on real devices.

Native iOS languages.
Continuos integration support.
Easy to understand and install if you have iOS experience.

Faster way to know which issues appeared and fixed it.
Easy way to install and teach to the programmers.
More time invested on the project to implement.

We are using XCTest as one of our tools in order to test at some level the User Interface regarding our IOS apps. This tool has been integrated with our development environment and it is mandatory for us nowadays to make our development a bit more clear and with fewer bugs for the end users.

Since we have started using it, we could notice we have fewer UI bugs

We use it to run unit tests on our app before we release to production.

Simple unit tests
Integrated into Xcode
Supported officially by the Apple Tech Stack

Occasionally confusing
Fails with automated builds without giving a good reason
Not super flexible

Integration with existing tools
Works with automated build processes
Displays code coverage amount

Prevents us from shipping bugs
It does take extra time to write and maintain unit tests
It can make it more challenging to onboard new developers

XCTest

Overview

What is XCTest?