MEETING INFORMATION

Thursday, November 13, 2008 19:00 at 1170 TMCB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

BYU CocoaHeads will be meeting in our regular location from 7–9 PM on November 13th. Slides, and screencasts will be posted after the meeting.

Presentations will cover unit testing—specifically in the context of Objective-C and Cocoa, using the included OCUnit framework—as well as detailed coverage on getting the most out of Xcode by understanding the build system, debugging, project organization, etc.

Unit testing and test-driven development are powerful techniques that developers across the industry use to ensure the quality and flexibility of the software they create. We'll discuss what unit testing is all about, how to use the unit testing infrastructure included with Xcode, and how to incorporate unit testing in your own projects. We'll also mention valuable concepts and tools related to unit testing, such as mock objects (using OCMock) and code coverage (using gcov).

Xcode is a powerful and flexible IDE (integrated development environment) with great tools for managing and building your projects—but it's not simple by any means. We'll discuss some of the most compelling features of Xcode and how to use them effectively. Topics will include build targets/phases/dependencies/scripts, configurations, debugging, organization, documentation, distributed building, editor settings, Subversion integration, and more.

INTRODUCTION

About Our Group

The BYU Cocoaheads chapter is located in Provo, UT, and is based out of Brigham Young University. Visit http://cocoaheads.byu.edu for more resources and information (including meeting times, etc.) Meetings are free and open to the public. Feel free to drop in even if you've never attended or aren't currently using Cocoa. There's no better way to learn Cocoa or get help with problems than being around other people who are writing Mac software. We usually have a few new faces, so don't worry about being the odd one out.

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