With Apple having now announced and made available for devlopers the next release of macOS (Sequoia), I wanted to put together a quick post (to be updated) on what I've found so far with macOS 15.0 beta and Xcode 16.0 beta. Automated tests were failing when I referenced …

Seemingly appropriate for the week after Easter, I've gone through some old draft posts and decided to publish them. A couple that were mostly ready and I decided to push out: Slathering Xcode Variants Test without building and SPM And one that I did a bunch of additional work and …

Ed. Note: I started this article nearly a year ago, but got stuck on the Kubernetes piece. Now that I've resolved that, I'm publishing it. I've been a very happy user of SauceLabs for testing for many years. However, I don't make a lot of use of it, and recently …

Another day, another set of testing issues. As mentioned in my previous post, Slathering Xcode Variants, I've been making some use of Xcode's capability to build a test package and separately run that test package on a different machine, possibly with a different version of macOS or even a different …

I've been doing quite a bit of experimentation with recent features in Xcode lately, especially as regards trying to efficiently run my GitLab-powered Mac Mini build farm. Recently, as I've been doing some work on CartoMobile, I've been updating the testing code there and stole some ideas from the Cartographica …

A number of years ago, I set out to automate a set of manual tests that we've been using for years to validate functionality and UI in Cartographica. I've been through a lot of technologies over the years, some expensive commercial tools, some open source technologies. I won't go through …

For a number of years, Cartographica has had a lot of tests-on the order of 1500+, but a few of them are quite a bit bigger than they should have been, owing mostly to their data-driven nature. This post describes the method used to provide dynamic test creation for Cartographica …