Anyone succesful in debugging unit tests for iPhone?

Question

I found examples on how to debug your unit test in Cocoa or the ADC page here. But I can't get the debugging to work for an iPhone app target. I can get the tests up and running and they are run during the build, but what I need is to debug the tests for some of the more complex failures.

Answer 1

The NSLog messages show up in Console.app

Should give you a starting point.

Answer 2

You might consider moving your tests to GHUnit, where they run in a normal application target, so debugging is straightforward.

Answer 3

If you do Build & Go instead of just build, then you can set breakpoints in your unit tests and debug them traditionally. This is if you are using the google toolbox for iphone unit testing; i don't know how you are doing it and if the process is different.

Answer 4

This can be done by setting up a separate Executable for the project that uses the otest tool to run the unit tests, after setting a bunch of relevant environment variables for the executable. I have used this method to successfully debug SenTestKit logic unit tests.

I found the following links helpful:

http://www.grokkingcocoa.com/how_to_debug_iphone_unit_te.html (also contains help to fix common errors encountered setting up the project).

http://cocoawithlove.com/2009/12/sample-iphone-application-with-complete.html (covers both logic tests and application tests)

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/otest.1.html (Man Page for otest XCode tool)