THIS ARTICLE IS NOT ABOUT TESTING WEBSITES WITH XCUITEST. I think that can be done, but I don’t do it, it sounds terribly painful, and there are probably better tools available. This article is to help you with a very common question I see asked on the StackOverflow XCUITest tag. “How do I ensure my app has sent me to the correct URL when…
This month was a hard one for everyone. Lots of teething (now 5-7 teeth), separation anxiety only remedied by a heavy dose of Mom, and leaving our nanny share due to the cutthroat nature of Portland daycare (if we passed at our opportunity, we’d not have a daycare opening until Fall 2022 at the earliest, which we can’t afford financially or mentally). We’re now…
It’s been just over a year since I announced my Reboot in which I decided to take my development skills to “the next level.” Since then I landed a new gig, have reached near expert level proficiency in iOS automation, and have kept going with the full stack course, but have really focused on being great at what I’m a paid to do (a…
TL;DR CircleCI and XCUITest are not a match made in heaven and you’re definitely not going to get parallelization. I spent a solid three working days to figure this out and while I didn’t produce what I was hoping for, I learned a lot along the way. Background My company uses CircleCI, we make an iOS app, and my job is to automate the UI…
THIS WAS WRITTEN 7 YEARS AGO. I AM CLEANING UP OLD POST DRAFTS. I DON’T KNOW WHY I DIDN’T POST THIS. I’ve gone ahead and updated links, which was interesting because so many of these brands have changed hands since that time. Only minor edits and fixes made. I’ve compiled the following list of yogurts over the past six months in hopes that it’ll…
Update: February 9, 2024. I’m going to walk this one back a bit. I’ve seen arguments against it that are valid. In particular, these are arguments against Clean Code. Does what I suggest make sense in the use case I had at the time of writing? Yes. Does it always? No. This is the part where 99% of you tune out… Page Object Model…