Unit testing Cocoa User Interface

Question

Hi All,

Anyone please let me know some links or examples for Unit testing user interface code. Is there a complete example app on that.

Thanks in Advance, Bhanu

Answer 1

I'm not aware of any publicly-available tools for testing UI for Cocoa applications. Depending on what you're hoping to test, you find find F-Script to be useful. Unit testing UI is generally a lot more complex than it sounds, especially since UI tends to change a lot during devlopment (and across localizations). If you're talking about directly testing whether button X triggers code Y, or if clicking X causes UI action Y to occur, you may be out of luck. However, you can certainly test whether methods invoked by UI work correctly.

Answer 2

You could, if your app is accessible, use Automator for testing user interfaces... Just record a workflow inside your app...

Don't know if that is good enough.. Just a suggestion.

Answer 3

I have one link that I bookmarked a while ago: Chris Hanson's blog on Unit testing Cocoa user interfaces: Target-Action

Haven't gotten around to using it myself, so I can't vouch for its usefulness. Hope it helps.