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Test iOS Apps with UI Automation
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Test iOS Apps with UI Automation

by Jonathan Penn
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
5h 26m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 8Setting Up Application Data

All along we’ve had to manually make sure NearbyMe starts in the right state for our tests. If we removed a search term, we had to make sure to put it back. This is, unfortunately, fragile. Instead, we want a way to tell our app to launch with a consistent set of data for our tests.

But more than that, we need customized sets of data for different kinds of tests. NearbyMe uses table-view animations to shuffle the search terms around when you switch the sorting order from alphabetical to recently used. We’ve never even checked to see how well it performs with a large number of table cells. These problems require prefabricated application data, and that’s what we’re going to cover next.

We’ll begin by ...

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