A SwiftMonkey Tutorial

How can we create better UI tests?

Prerequisites:

• Some knowledge of CocoaPods in order to install SwiftMonkey

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Terminology

UITests: Testing by interacting and validating the behaviour of UI elements

Background

The examples below use a simple setup of SwiftMonkey to help those not familiar with it. There’s even code in the git repo to help you out!

Tutorial

Create a new Single View project

$ pod init

$ vim podfile

Add the following to the pod file:

target ‘SwiftMonkeyTutorial’ do

pod “SwiftMonkeyPaws”, ‘~> 2.1.0’

end

target ‘SwiftMonkeyTutorialTests” do

pod ‘SwiftMonkey’, ‘~> 2.1.0’

end

target ‘SwiftMonkeyTutorialUITests” do

pod ‘SwiftMonkey’, ‘~> 2.1.0’

end

$ pod install

Update the AppDelegate