UI testing is a great way to ensure that your UI interactions keep working as you’re adding new features or refactoring your app’s codebase – it keeps your app functional. Writing and running UI tests is kind of different from… Continue Reading
When your code smells it is often not awful code that makes your hold your nose. Rather it’s a simple indication that something may need to be changed. However when you don’t change and ignore you probably will end with a… Continue Reading
Today I came across code that implemented a complex login process. The login flow was quite complex but what made the code really difficult to understand was how it was implemented. Notifications, delegates, and long case switch statements were used to implement the login flow.… Continue Reading
Randomness is the lack of pattern or predictability. We can be sure of one thing, however: in the closed, digital universe of CPU cycles there is no true randomness, only pseudo randomness. Pseudorandomness, is often implemented in a way very… Continue Reading
Many modern languages have exceptions. If you come from Java you’ll most likely using exceptions all the way to handle error cases. For objective-C you are going to have to go back and forget everything you knew about exceptions and… Continue Reading
When you write testing code you will often want to define a constant. Typical constants that you might want to factor out are your test fixtures. Often Objective-C programmers take the approach of defining the constant like this: #define USER_NAME… Continue Reading