The premise of this kata is that the existing ViewControllers in any iOS application are tightly coupled to presentation layer concerns. Rather than attempting to write tests directly against the view controllers, instead write unit tests to generate a Presenter class, injected with multiple protocols, that will coordinate activities between those protocols. In this classic "bank account transfer" example, the presenter delegates method calls to a remote account repository protocol, a local account repository protocol, and a view protocol. The use of OCMock to mock these protocols enables us to design and understand the interactions, and to "generate-by-usage" each element of the MVP pattern. Later in the kata an IOC container class, "ServiceLocator", is designed by unit test to standardize presenter instantiation in a single location.
This kata uses the JetBrains AppCode IDE to generate all tests and code. The kata has a heavy emphasis on effective use of keyboard shortcuts to generate classes, protocols, methods and import statements quickly and naturally as part of the design process. Please note that in this screencast, the key mappings have been set to the standard Intellij keymap used by Intellij (java). This keymap is often set as the default in other JetBrains IDEs. (JetBrains provides IDEs in multiple programming languages.)
To begin the kata screencast, click here.
