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Shared library and test code for iOS and macOS projects
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PivotalCoreKit — Common library code for iOS projects.

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Why PivotalCoreKit

PivotalCoreKit lets you keep creating beautiful apps without having to rewrite the same boilerplate code in every project.

While it has useful functionality in a few different domains, it has a particular focus on helping developers test drive their iOS applications.

What can PivotalCoreKit help with

Highlights

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PivotalCoreKit is split along framework lines, with separate Xcode projects for the Foundation, UIKit, and CoreLocation frameworks. Each project is then separated again out into sub-sections: Core, SpecHelper, and SpecHelperStubs.

Core methods are meant to be used anywhere they're useful, whether in specs or in the primary application. SpecHelper extends built-in classes to make testing easier and more seamless. SpecHelperStubs stub out (and replace) a class's functionality to allow a developer to more easily inspect its state.

Here is a (hopefully exhaustive but inevitably out of date) list of PivotalCoreKit functionality, separated by framework/section:

PivotalCoreKit is test-driven and includes Specs in each project.

That sounds great, give me some examples

Maybe you have a bunch of quarterly reports and want to collect all the finances from the first week for each report. After linking to Foundation+PivotalCore

#import "NSArray+PivotalCore.h"
/* ... */
Week week = FirstWeek;
NSArray *firstWeekFinances = [reports collect:^id(PLReport *report) {
    return [report financesForWeek:week];
}];

Or maybe you're testing that tapping a button properly fires off a network request After linking to UIKit+PivotalSpecHelper

#import "UIControl+Spec.h"
/* ... */
describe(@"when the button is tapped", ^{
    beforeEach(^{
        [button tap];
    });

    it(@"fires a network request", ^{
        apiClient should have_received(@selector(requestNewestRecipes));
    });
});

Say you want to check what URL a webview was asked to load. After linking to UIKit+PivotalSpecHelperStubs

#import "UIWebView+Spec.h"
/* ... */
it(@"webview should load example.com", ^{
    controller.webView.request.URL.absoluteString should equal(@"http://example.com");
});

Without PivotalCoreKit's UIWebView stubs, the webView's NSURLRequest will be nil because the real UIWebView hasn't started actually making the request. A stubbed UIWebView updates the request property immediately.

How do I install PivotalCoreKit

Via CocoaPods

  1. Install CocoaPods with gem install cocoapods.
  2. Create a file in your Xcode project called Podfile and add the following line:
pod 'PivotalCoreKit'

The PivotalCoreKit cocoapod is split into multiple sub pods to allow users to pick-and-choose what parts of the library they want to use. so examine the podspec to choose what pieces you want. An example of a more complicated PodFile would look like this:

target 'ImplementationTarget' do
  pod 'PivotalCoreKit'
end

target 'Specs' do
  pod 'PivotalCoreKit'
  pod 'PivotalCoreKit/UIKit/SpecHelper/Extensions'
  pod 'PivotalCoreKit/Foundation/SpecHelper/Fakes'
end

For OSX Projects - since Foundation is the only OSX-compatible framework, just add the Foundation sub pod to your Podfile.

pod 'PivotalCoreKit/Foundation'
  1. Run pod install in your xcode project directory. CocoaPods should download and install the correct portions of the PivotalCoreKit library, and create a new Xcode workspace. Open up this workspace in Xcode.

Via Git Submodules

Example, adding -[UIButton tap] to a spec target

Library Documentation

Documentation for specific methods and functionality can be found at http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/PivotalCoreKit/

MIT License

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