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Asked: 2026-05-18T01:22:37+00:00

I’m currently using GHUnit and OCMock for testing my app. I’m using them because

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I’m currently using GHUnit and OCMock for testing my app. I’m using them because I like the fact that I can run test code on the actual device.

The way my app is currently designed is that I have some central services and objects available through properties on the app delegate. For example, I’ve centralised some core data functionality which can be accessed by [UIApplication sharedApplication].coreData.

The problem I’ve encountered is that in order to run unit tests on the device or simulator, GHUnit uses it’s own app delegate which doesn’t have these properties. So if a unit triggers code which wants to access them, it fails.

So I’m looking at the design of the app and wondering if I should redesign the way these core facilities are made available. How do you guys design your apps?

One thing I’m considering is extracting this functionality out to a separate object so that I can then use OCMock to simulate it for testing purposes.

Any thoughts?

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  1. Editorial Team

    After thinking about this a while I realised there was a simpler solution. I created a category with the app delegate’s interface which applies to the GU Unit app delegate used when running the tests. This way I can get the tests to run and use this category to return OC Mocks when necessary.

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