Completed the Course "TDD Cycle, GIT, CI, and CD" by Apple Coding Academy

This Thursday I finished the course "TDD, GIT, CI, and CD Cycle" ( Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery ) by Apple Coding Academy . It lasted a bit more than a week and was a 10/10 course.

To stay at the forefront of iOS development , it is crucial to engage in continuous learning .

Although I was trained in TDD, GIT, CI, and CD years ago and have been working with these technologies for a long time, I always update my knowledge with new courses. Sometimes they just provide small details, and other times they completely change my way of working.

iOS development evolves rapidly, and each year brings significant improvements in app development . I find this very exciting and one of the aspects that make me love my profession 😍.

This is the third course I have taken from Julio César , and they never disappoint, they are always of high quality. He is a great instructor who stays current with iOS development and the best techniques, so I will continue taking his courses.

The course syllabus was:

Software Lifecycle

• Concepts of TDD, CI, and CD
• Git (commit, push, pull, pull request...)
• Red-Green-Refactor Cycle
• TDD Lifecycle
• Integrating TDD into an Existing App
• UI Testing
• CI and CD Architecture
• Analyzing the Complete Cycle
• Tests in Swift Frameworks and Packages

Unit Testing

• XCTest Library
• Connecting Targets
• Mock Objects
• XCTAssert
• Synchronous Tests
• Asynchronous Tests and Expectations
• XCWaiter
• Integration Tests
• Performance Tests
• Code Coverage
• Report Navigator
• Parallel Testing on Multiple Devices
• XCTSkip, Skipping Specific Tests during Execution
• XCTIssue, Triaging and Detecting Uncaptured Problems in the Apps

UI Tests

• Concept: Black Box Testing
• XCUIDevice, XCUIApplication, and XCUIElement Classes
• Actions and Properties towards our UI
• Step-by-Step Test Flows in Code
• Element Trees
• Test Recordings and Replications
• Testing UIKit and SwiftUI

Test Plans in Xcode 12

• Different Behaviors in the App
• Shared Settings and Configurations
• Configuring Plans
• Parallel Execution on Multiple Simulators
• Converting Schemes into Plans
• Screenshots for Tests
• Use Cases: Memory Usage and Concurrency