RbiPhonetest worth pursuing?

[Paul Wilson]

Hi,

Anyone there. Testing..., testing.., . Is this thing on?

I've enjoyed using RbiPhonetest to test drive a teeny app
(Twitterlink). Once I've figured out a way to do things, I've found
doing most of the coding in Textmate combined with Autotest+Growl a
really fluid way of coding. With a bit of hacking, I've even managed
to test some of the interactions between UI elements.

However I've got the Dr Nic is deprecating RbiPhonetest, at least for
now. I'm wondering whether it's worth persevering with, or should I
just start using the iphone testing in the Google toolbox.

On the one hand it's great to be writing the tests in Ruby; on the
other hand there's a lot of interesting problems to overcome - just
now experimenting with splitting a model using Categories.

If there's anyone there, what do you think?

Paul

[Stu]

Hi Paul. What did you decide? I'm just getting setup, and am hoping
to use this to test my db-backed models. The list has been a bit
quiet, but I'm going to go ahead and see if I can make this work for
me.

[Aaron VonderHaar]

Hi Paul,

Could you share what you've been doing with UI tests and
rbiphonetest? I'd love to have a look at it.

I've been using rbiphonetest for testing some of my Mac/Cocoa apps,
and have not played around with it much for testing iPhone apps. I
have gotten the google toolbox (GTM) integrated with my rspec tests
for my mac apps for doing image-based approval tests, but I wasn't
sure if it would be possible to integrate things the same with with
iPhone apps since the iPhone itself (and I'm assuming the simulator
also) can't run ruby code. Do you have any insight into that?

I would love to get an iPhone project set up to do comprehensive
testing with rspec and cucumber, so the more info you can share with
us the better.

My own setup for rspec/cucumber/RubyCocoa (but should also work well
with objc Cocoa apps) is here: http://github.com/avh4/master/tree/rubycocoa

--Aaron V.
http://avh4.net

[Paul Wilson]

Hi Aaron & Stu,

1. I've pretty much given up on rbiphonetest in favour of the Google
Toobox apps. It's a pity, but the Ruby stuff was getting too
difficult to manage every time I strayed off the standard path.

2. I wrote up my experiences with rbiphonetest, prior to abandoning
it, here

http://merecomplexities.com/2008/12/unit-testing-iphones-cocoa-touch-with.html

and

http://merecomplexities.com/2008/12/iphone-tdd-with-rbiphonetest-ii-posting.html

My plan is to write up a migration from the Rbiphonetest to the Google
toolbox, but I haven't had the time.

Cheers,

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Paul Wilson
http://merecomplexities.com

Scotland on Rails 26-28 March 2009
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