In this episode Matthew talks with Scott Densmore about Test Driven Development for the iPhone. The Objective C world is slowly gaining popularity with platforms like iOS and producing High quality apps is a must. Test Driven Development is just starting to catch on in this world and Scott and Matthew discuss how Scott has been able to maintain a TDD lifestyle while developing for the iPhone.

iPhone TDD

• How Test Driven Development (TDD) works on hardware
  • What are some of the tools
  • What frameworks are available (mocking, unit testing, etc.)
• How does the standard TDD pattern change
  • Is the red/green pattern still followed
  • Can you still have things like Continuous Integration
  • Parts of the pattern that just don’t work
• Personal Experiences developing iPhone applications
  • Benefits to the TDD lifestyle
  • Gotchas and downsides to the TDD lifestyle

Information from/about Scott

• Patterns & Practices – Windows Azure Guidance
• Scott’s Blog
• OCUnit – Unit Testing Framework
• Xcode – Object C IDE