teardown for whole test suite

Question

I have a test suite in which there are many test classes each one having many tests. Now if I define

+ (void)tearDown

in any class, then it will be run after all the tests of that class only. and

- (void)tearDown

will be run after each test. I want to define a tearDown method and want it to be run after all the tests of all the classes. Fox eg, if I have 5 classes each having 7 tests each. So I want to run this tearDown function after all the 35 tests.

- Which test framework are you using? - Why do you need to do a final teardown? — Jon Reid, Nov 23 '13 at 02:55
I am using sentest. And in xcode 5, my test coverage generation failed. I searched and found that we have to run __gcov_flush to get .gcda files built. To do that, I have to run this function after whole test suite. — Udit Agarwal, Nov 23 '13 at 08:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

If I understand correctly your question, you can take note of completion of each method using a global variable/flag using completion block methods like this:

+ (void)myMethod:(UIView *)exampleView completion:(void (^)(BOOL finished))completion {
    if (completion) {
        completion(finished);
    }
}

Look at this for a better explanation.

Then create a method that checks if all taskes are executed and that runs final test when needed like this:

- (void)finalTest {
    if (CHECK GLOBAL FLAG FOR COMPLETION OF OTHER TASKES) {
        // do final test
    } else {
        // repeat check after 0.1 seconds
        [self performSelector:@selector(finalTest)
               withObject:nil
               afterDelay:0.1];
    }
}

Yeah!! I can do like this but for that I will have to change my existing tests which I don't want. Can't I add some special function like teardown for whole suite? — Udit Agarwal, Nov 22 '13 at 15:29

Jon Reid · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-05T20:02:46.897

0

Since you're looking for a way to call __gcov_flush() after all tests have finished, see https://qualitycoding.org/ios-7-code-coverage/. The latest code from Google Toolbox for Mac shows how to do this using test observers, with versions for both SenTestingKit and XCTest.

edited May 05 '18 at 20:02

answered Nov 24 '13 at 06:14

Jon Reid

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