[aerogear-dev] xctool and xcpretty

[Karel Piwko]

Anything that helps stability of iOS testing env will get automatic +1 for
me. We fee the pain of xctool as well.

The only downside I see here is that xcpretty uses Ruby and maintaining Ruby
(gem) dependencies is a PITA in long term. Is there any plan to user bundler to
keep gemset the same across various local dev envs and CI?

Karel

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:25:39 +0200
Christos Vasilakis <cvasilak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> During the last couple of days, as part of my AGIOS-181[1] work, got bumped
> by problem issues of xctool[2] during builds both local and on travis. Let me
> try to explain the two major issues faced:
> 
> a) first the current release fails to run logic tests for an Xcode 5.1
> project, fixed in ‘master' some hours ago[3] b) starting up the emulator to
> run ‘application' tests always failed on travis [4]. Not sure why, switching
> to the build-in xcodebuild fixed the issue, so I guess its some issue with
> xctool. (used to work prior).
> 
> In a nutshell, xctool tries to mimic the behaviour of xcodebuild during
> builds and understandable it can’t catch up with its future developments.
> Major benefit of xctool is the nice formatting output during tests which
> helps a lot to identify issues. The ideal would be a tool that relies on
> xcodebuild (so it’s always up-to-date with apple development at the minute of
> the release) and give a nice formatting output of the results. Fortunately
> enough the flourish iOS OSS community stepped in and ‘xcpretty’ was
> created[5].  It provides the same benefits of xctool (if better)  but relies
> on xcodebuild for its build for maximum compatibility. Already major projects
> have adopted for their builds[6]. 
> 
> I think it’s sensible if we follow this path and adopt xcpretty for our
> builds.
> 
> Wdyt?
> 
> Regards,
> Christos
> 
> 
> 
> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGIOS-181
> [2] https://github.com/facebook/xctool
> [3] https://github.com/facebook/xctool/issues/337
> [4] https://travis-ci.org/cvasilak/aerogear-ios-integration/builds/21524580
> [5] https://github.com/supermarin/xcpretty
> [6] https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/blob/master/Rakefile#L34
> 
> 
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