IPhone Rotation Unit Testing

Question

In my iPhone application there are several views and several viewControllers for these views.

I need to check how viewControllers react to device rotation (switching between portrait and landscape orientations).

I found information on the OCMock and google-toolbox-for-mac platforms, but did not find answers on this topic.

In some views, the Landscape / Portrait function may be enabled, and some may not. I need to check the view state after the number of random (or predefined) device spins.

I have no ideas on how to do this without real user action.

Can someone help me in this situation? Thanks.

Answer 1

Several possible solutions:

• This one allows you to connect your iPhone / Touch and send accelerometer events to the simulator.

• If you prefer to use your Mac laptop as an accelerometer source, here is another way to do this.

• Similar in concept, but slightly different from implementation .

In all cases, you can output the output from these applications and save them in a data file, and then read them during testing to simulate user movement.