Comments on: Continuos Integration for XCode projects

By: CI with Jenkins for iOS apps + build distribution via testflightapp tutorial | Shine Technologies Blog

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:01:51 +0000

[...] from the command line and sending its output to the excellent ocunit2junit.rb script created by Christian Hedin. Which converts the ocunit test output into the same xml format that is used by [...]

By: Ronald

Ronald — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:25:10 +0000

Xcode definitely has its pluses and minuses like anything else. Online apps like the IT calculator seem to be more popular because they are easy to code and functional.

By: Guido

Guido — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:30:48 +0000

Hi,
This is really a perfect tutorial, especially the tool ocunit2junit.rb works like a charme. I use it directly in XCode to beautify my test-results. In XCode 4 it’s sometimes a little bit ugly to find the real reason for a unit test failure when working with OCMockObjects and Google Toolbox. You always have to leave your sources and go to the latest log. Now I just open a browser window and show the test results after converting your test-results with ant->junitreport.

One great improvement of your script would be to also add the next lines of the log to the error message until a line starts with “tests_errors[” When working with OCMock in these lines the methods are printed to the log, which were not called although they were expected to be called. Now I unfortunately only see the information, that two expected methods were not called.

But (thumbs up)!
Guido

By: Darvell

Darvell — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:55:52 +0000

This was VERY useful, thanks so much. I also confirmed this works fine with SVN. I get an autobuild to run when the SVN archive is updated and the script correctly strips out my unit test errors/passes. Awesome job!

By: iOS: Running Unit Tests with Code Coverage in Hudson « Software Noise

iOS: Running Unit Tests with Code Coverage in Hudson « Software Noise — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:09:36 +0000

[...] an automatic clean build from XCode, it does not take much to run in from Hudson. Quite useful was this article. It shows how to use xcodebuild to run an XCode project without XCode. It also provides a small [...]

By: Kristofer

Kristofer — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:26:00 +0000

I think I got it working! I had set up the Hudson config according to another tutorial (very similar to yours), and the SDK setting in the build script was missing.

Got it working by setting it to 4.0, while 3.2 failed due to some weird bug (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1364456/xcode-3-2-in-snow-leopard-hangs-running-unit-tests).

Thanks!

By: Kristofer

Kristofer — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:43:24 +0000

Thanks for a nice tutorial!

I’m having problems with my test reports, though. To be more precise, I’m not getting any reports at all.

I’ve got a simple project set up with a single test. It runs smoothly in Xcode, giving me the test results in the Build result panel. But nothing gets printed to the debugger console – is that a requirement for the Hudson report to work?

I’m getting the following error (same as Mark mentions above):
…
setenv YACC /Developer/usr/bin/yacc
/bin/sh -c /opt/local/var/db/hudson/jobs/VCC/workspace/build/VCC.build/Debug-iphoneos/LogicTests.build/Script-3D431BAF1271C6EA00CC02E7.sh

** BUILD SUCCEEDED **

Recording test results
No test report files were found. Configuration error?
Finished: FAILURE

I’ve Googled for a while now, but can’t find any way to get the tests output the results in any other way…

(I’m using the OCTest framework.)

Very grateful for any reply!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:49:07 +0000

Christian
Have you tried to get Code Coverage working with your setup? I have Unit testing working fine, but following stuff I’ve read, I haven’t been able to get Code Coverage to work. I keep getting “Skipping Cobertura coverage report as build was not SUCCESS or better”

By: Continuous iPhone Application Integration with my buddy Hudson and Xcode… and then some « just another developer

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:14:40 +0000

[...] it lol, I just found this – http://blog.jayway.com/2010/01/31/continuos-integration-for-xcode-projects/ Tags: continuous integration, deployment, hudson, svn, xcode Share this post! Twitter Digg [...]

By: Cocoa, Hudson CI and Xcode - go green | manicwave.com

Cocoa, Hudson CI and Xcode - go green | manicwave.com — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:32:48 +0000

[...] screwed up more than a few times getting my apps to build in Hudson. There are more than a few pages on the web that illustrate Cocoa/Hudson [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:12:07 +0000

Got it to work. Using a remote build is a little tricky. I just had to figure out where the build was really being compiled from, so I wrote a little build script and attached it to my project. This is a really cool script. Thanks everyone and especially you Christian for putting together this tutorial. I’ve learned a lot.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:08:15 +0000

Do I have to install JUnit? Everything works just fine if I don’t click on “Publish JUnit test result report” test-reports/*.xml still generates errors either running Hudson locally java -jar hudson.war or Remote(Ubuntu) Any other suggestions? Here is the command I’m executing

cd ~/SourceControl/Calculator
xcodebuild -target “UnitTests” -sdk /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.1.3.sdk/ -configuration “Debug” | /usr/local/bin/ocunit2junit.rb

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:22:20 +0000

Thanks Christian. I’ll try this without using Ubuntu tonight when I return from work.

By: Christian Hedin

Christian Hedin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:57:29 +0000

The first time you enter test-reports/*.xml Hudson will complain that the folder doesn’t exist, but as long as your XCode build actually produces some unit test output the folder will be created and all will go well. I created a new project setup just yesterday so I’m pretty sure it works as described in the guide.

I’m very curious how it’s working for you under Linux with remote xcodebuild binary. Perhaps it’s something related to that which is causing your problem?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:00:15 +0000

Message in Hudson
‘**/test-reports/*.xml’ doesn’t match anything: ‘**’ exists but not ‘**/test-reports/*.xml’

Its strange it creates a folder named test-reports for me and I see xml, but when I make my test pass the build passes, but the last line in the output says it failed. Snippet from the Output
/Developer/Tools/RunPlatformUnitTests.include:446: note: Passed tests for architecture ‘i386′ (GC OFF)
/Developer/Tools/RunPlatformUnitTests.include:462: note: Completed tests for architectures ‘i386′
** BUILD SUCCEEDED **

Recording test results
No test report files were found. Configuration error?
Finished: FAILURE

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:49:13 +0000

Just tried your suggestion Chad and still nothing for me. I’m running Hudson on a Ubuntu server and the test builds are being executed via a RemoteSlave node since Xcode only runs a Mac. I hope this helps..

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:18:33 +0000

This worked great for me.

Mark, try referencing your test reports as ‘**/test-reports/*.xml’ it seems ** = $WORKSPACE.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:03:47 +0000

Christian. Question on Hudson. I just about have everything working except in Hudson when I type in test-reports/*.xml I get a message from Hudson saying ‘test-reports/*.xml’ doesn’t match anything:even ‘test-reports’ doesn’t exist.

Any suggestions? I’m new at this whole thing.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:40:18 +0000

Thanks Christian. I’ll try to play with this this weekend. I’m very new to all of this. I have Hudson installed but I’m using Subversion. Unit tests in Xcode is also new to me…….

By: Christian Hedin

Christian Hedin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:11:37 +0000

Absolutely, it works in the same manner using Subversion instead.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:03:54 +0000

Can this be done using Subversion instead of Git? I think the answer is yes but I want to confirm this.

By: Jean-Pierre

Jean-Pierre — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:34:06 +0000

Thank you so much for your ocunit2junit.rb script. It works very well. I use it for another CI system than Hudson and he works also, as expected.

my 2 cents: the first word of your article has a typo

By: Christian Hedin

Christian Hedin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:39:16 +0000

Whops, fixed!

By: sven

sven — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:31:53 +0000

this is so cool! works perfekt! great for bigger projects.

xcodebuild -target \UnitTests\ -sdk /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.1.2.sdk/ -configuration \Debug\ | /usr/local/bin/ocunit2junit.rb\

> just the last \ is too much and cost me some minutes

thanks and best wishes from stockholm