Posted by: Brian Knorr on: September 22, 2009
Last night Apple’s latest commercial premiered with our mobile travel app, TripCase, as the first application demoed in the advertisement. It ran during Heroes, House, and Gossip Girl, and Apple plans on running it for the next several months in various time slots. If you haven’t seen it yet you can view it on Apple’s [...]
Posted by: Brian Knorr on: August 9, 2009
I have just added simple scripting support to UISpec. It allows you to send a String as a script and have it run dynamically. This really opens up the possibility of using UISpec with other languages like Ruby, Java, etc. The following is taken from the documentation found here. UIScript’s goal is to provide a [...]
Posted by: Brian Knorr on: August 4, 2009
Over the weekend I did some work on UISpec…mostly getting the “redo” feature working. Redo let’s you rerun a chained set of queries that will return a result based on what is on the screen right now. Internally the redo feature is being used for traversals and filtering, and I thought it might come in [...]
Posted by: Brian Knorr on: August 4, 2009
Over the weekend I made some small changes to the way traversals work in UISpec. As a result the following method names have changed: descendants is now descendant parents is now parent children is now child Calling these methods return exactly what you would except them to. The method parent finds the parent view, child [...]
Posted by: Brian Knorr on: March 26, 2009
For UISpec I needed a an easy way to create and cache a method call on an object. I know that NSInvocation is the class to go with, but it’s very cumbersome to create and use. Luckily I found the blog post Callable Objects in Cocoa, which pointed me in the right direction, so I [...]
Posted by: Brian Knorr on: March 23, 2009
We are happy to announce the availability of a new UISpec demo along with a first pass at documentation, and it’s actually pretty thorough. The documentation can be found here. To run the demo just do an svn checkout or export explained here. Then within the folder you did a checkout/export, go to the directory [...]
Posted by: Brian Knorr on: March 17, 2009
We are getting close to releasing our new open source behavior driven development framwork for the iPhone called UISpec. It is modeled after RSpec for Ruby, but is optimized for Objective-C programming with UIKit. We have the new google code site up which you can check out here. More to come soon.
