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SwiftUI Cookbook

You're reading from   SwiftUI Cookbook Discover solutions and best practices to tackle the most common problems while building SwiftUI apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838981860
Length 614 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Edgar Nzokwe Edgar Nzokwe
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Using the Basic SwiftUI Views and Controls 2. Chapter 2: Going Beyond the Single Component with Lists and Scroll Views FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Viewing while Building with SwiftUI Preview 4. Chapter 4: Creating New Components and Grouping Views in Container Views 5. Chapter 5: Presenting Extra Information to the User 6. Chapter 6: Drawing with SwiftUI 7. Chapter 7: Animating with SwiftUI 8. Chapter 8: Driving SwiftUI with Data 9. Chapter 9: Driving SwiftUI with Combine 10. Chapter 10: Handling Authentication and Firebase with SwiftUI 11. Chapter 11: Handling Core Data in SwiftUI 12. Chapter 12: Cross-Platform SwiftUI 13. Chapter 13: SwiftUI Tips and Tricks 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Snapshot testing SwiftUI views

While snapshot testing is more common in other technologies, for example, JavaScript and the Jest testing library, (see https://jestjs.io/docs/en/snapshot-testing.html), in the iOS world it is not so common.

Snapshot testing is another name for characterization testing. Here's the definition by Michael Feathers, the guru of improving legacy code: https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/characterization-testing. In the SwiftUI implementation, we are taking a snapshot of the current component we want to preserve, and we run a test against that component so that if in the future someone mistakenly changes its appearance, the test will fail.In the case of iOS, usually a component we want to preserve is UIViewController or a UIView.

Depending on the library we are going to use, we can take the snapshot in different ways: as a textual description or an actual screenshot. For this recipe, we'll use the Swift Snapshot Testing library that you can...

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