XCTest Reviews & Insights

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.

It is very useful to add it mainly at the beginning of the app when each feature is finished and if the greatest importance of the app is its stability and a quick way to fix errors that are made during the changes. Do it when the app is finished; it's going to be quite time-consuming; however, applying it will go a long way in making sure the code hasn't been broken by changes and improvements.

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.

IF you want to have some tests on your IOS apps, this tool (XCTest) can be easily integrated into your development environment and help your organization to avoid some bugs that would be deployed if not tested.

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.

Overall, XCTest is a good choice for testing iOS functionality and apps at a basic unit level. In order to thoroughly test the logic, you must add many of those sorts of basic tests, which makes functional UI testing more appropriate for iOS apps. As I mentioned earlier, limited Programming Language Support and no cross platform compatibilities are the only major drawbacks.

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

It just works with the out of the box iOS development toolset.