Question

I am using a Mac and would like to create a simple objective c unit test file to try out with a continuous build process. What is the simplest unit test file that I can create that I can point xcodebuild at to execute from the terminal?

//Simple file
//with some setup and a simple assert equal statement

> xcodebuild ...

Answer 1

A simple OCUnit test file might look like this (in a SimpleTests.m file)

@interface SimpleTests : SenTestCase {}
@end
@implementation SimpleTests
- (void)testFail { STFail(@"Tests are running"); }
@end

I’ve no idea if it is the simplest (and don’t really want to know, thanks). It’s certainly simple enough.

However, to get it to do anything you must build it into a framework that links against SenTestingKit and Foundation frameworks – so having your simple test file isn’t really half the problem.

This might help

http://cocoawithlove.com/2010/09/minimalist-cocoa-programming.html

If you go with xCodeBuild you obviously need a complete XCode project, properly setup, inorder to build the framework. You could not really describe this as a simple, single file solution that you can build and execute.