Book Review: Test-Driven iOS Development

This is a great book for both someone who wants to learn Test Driven Development (TDD), anyone that wants to learn how to do unit testing in Xcode, and anyone who wants to improve their designs using TDD. The author begins the book with a nice overview of the benefits of testing and how to use TDD to achieve those benefits. He then moves right into how to write unit tests and covers the tools available for unit testing. He covers OCUnit test (integrated with Xcode) in detail and introduces Google Toolkit for Mac, GHUnit, CATCH, and OCMock. He then introduces continuous integration with coverage of Hudson / Jenkins and CruiseControl. After introducing the tools, the author spends the next six chapters building an application using TDD. He starts with a specification and ends with a working application. I have listed the chapters below. Their titles explain what they cover and show how the author attacked building the application.

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