[TFUI] Unit testing Cocoa user interfaces

A long time ago I promised to several people on a couple of lists  
that I'd write up my approach to doing user interface unit testing  
with the Cocoa framework on Mac OS X.  My initial write-up a year ago  
was a philosophical discussion of my approach, which I call "trust,  
but verify" and can be found here:

   http://chanson.livejournal.com/118380.html

I've just written up an additional post that describes how to  
actually write OCUnit unit tests that verify the controls in a Cocoa  
window are set up correctly.

   http://chanson.livejournal.com/148204.html

Note that I'm not trying to teach the Objective-C language,  the  
Cocoa framework, the OCUnit unit testing framework, or the out-of-the- 
box integration of OCUnit into Apple's Xcode IDE in this post.  Info  
on all of those can be found at <http://developer.apple.com/>.  (I  
also have a bunch of info available via the tags on the two posts.)

I hope someone else finds this useful.  I find that this approach  
makes it very straightforward to do test-driven development of user  
interfaces without having to change the either design patterns I'm  
using to build my software or the approach to tools like Interface  
Builder.

   -- Chris



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