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I’ve been playing around with XCode and iOS SDK lately, particularely with various alternatives for achieving automatic acceptance testing. (Which I belive is the only long-term solution to fight The Regression Testing problem.)

One of the most promising solutions I’ve found is UISpec, modeled after Ruby’s mighty popular RSpec. Even though it still feels a bit rough cut, UISpec provides an easy way to write tests that invoke your application’s user interface; no recording, just plain Objective-C.

Anyway, in case you’re interested, I published a tutorial on how to set UISpec up for your project: Getting Started With UISpec.

I’m reading Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests, by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce. I was happy to find that the authors share a similar view on constructed generic types as I do.

Our rule of thumb is that we try to limit passing around types with generics […]. Particularly when applied to collections, we view it as a form of duplication. It’s a hint that there’s a domain concept that should be extracted into a type.

A less blunt way of saying what I tried to say in my own post.

If you’re interested in the book I can strongly recommend it. Although I’m only half-way through it I can already tell it’s the best TDD book I have read so far. I’ll have a brief review up in a coming post.

Cheers!