Continuous integration & continuous deployment on iOS using gh-unit, Frank and TestFlight

1. Automated Awesome
Alan Harper
@aussiegeek

2. Background
• Existing experience with web & mobile web
applications
• Experimented with Phonegap
• Agile & TDD are how we get results
• Used to having CI for our current products

3. Going Native
• Little in-house experience
• No code written yet
• Got more than one large apps with a long
lifespan
• Template for future teams & products

4. Continuous Integration

5. Continuous Integration
• Prove every commit is good
• Unit Testing
• Functional Testing
• Static Analysis
• Jenkins

6. Unit Testing
• Sentest
• gh-unit
• cedar

7. Sentest
• Bundled with XCode 4
• Couldn’t get running in a CI
environment(but somebody has their hand
up to prove me wrong?)

8. gh-unit
• Seems to be the most common library in
use
• Documented from the start for CI

9. Functional Testing
• UIAutomation
• iCuke
• Frank

10. UI Automation
• Apple support framework
• Docs caused me a sad
• Not designed for CI

11. iCuke
• Abandonware? (Last commit 30 June 2010)

12. Frank
• Actively maintained
• Easy to run in CI
• Uses cucumber

13. Static Analysis
• memory leaks
• null dereferncing
• others too

14. scan-build plugin
• Automatic static analysis of every build
• Reports easily accessible

15. TestFlight
• Yes, it’s awesome
• Late addition: wox

16. Concerns
• Testing push notifications
• API Interactions
• Making sure API changes don’t break the
client

17. Linkity link
• playup.com
• jenkins-ci.org
• github.com/gabriel/gh-unit
• github.com/moredip/Frank
• testflightapp.com
• clang-analyzer.llvm.org
• github.com/snappycode/wox

18. PlayUp Live