CONFIG_START - beforeAllSpecs: Never gets invoked.

[dtrenz]

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I created a file named Config.m, added it to my unit test target, and put the following in it:

#import <Kiwi/Kiwi.h>

CONFIG_START

beforeAllSpecs(^{
  NSLog(@"BEFORE ALL SPECS");
});

CONFIG_END

But, it never gets called when I run tests. Anything obvious I may be missing?

[dtrenz]

Is this a bug, or is this feature still not really supported? I was unable to find any documentation for it.

[modocache]

@dtrenz Thanks for the report! Yeah, the lack of documentation is concerning, but as far as I know it should work. I have some questions:

1. Do you have any tests, or is your test suite comprised of just the beforeAllSpecs block?
2. Are you running all tests (⌘+U), or are you running just one test?

Let me know if you still have access to the code that was giving you a problem, and chime in here if you're interested in helping me diagnose this further. I'll close this for now -- doing some spring cleaning on the repository. :)

[modocache]

Oops, this turns out to be a regression we can confirm by running the test script. @sharplet is landing a fix now.

[sharplet]

I've done a little bit of investigation, and here's what I've found:

• The previous implementation was relying on the "All tests" suite being instantiated by +[XCTestSuite testSuiteWithName:]. This seems to have changed.
• It's possible to hook -[XCTestSuite initWithName:] instead, but moving the existing implementation to that method causes Xcode itself to crash (!). Maybe dynamically changing an object's class in the middle of an initialiser is not recommended? 😛

I don't have a lot of time to investigate a workaround personally, but I'd totally accept a PR with a fix for this.