Three Ways to Test Your iOS App

In this post, I’m going to discuss different ways to test your iOS app and why you need to be using tests for you code.

Got your coffee or favorite beverage? Great then let’s hop to it!

What are the different ways to test your app?

• Manually
• With Beta Users
• Automatically

I’ll go through each way and give pros and cons for each.

Manually

Manually is probably the most familiar to all of us. This is you running your app on the simulator or a real device and you click on all the buttons and run through everything yourself.

You might have a checklist like this, which is a basic list of what I use for iHog.

• Launch app
• Connect to OSC
• Change IP addresses
• Change port numbers
• Add show
• Launch existing show
• Adjust parameters on programmer
• Use faders

Pros

• You know exactly what to check