Occasional errors when running OCUnit application test suite on device

Question

I'm having some problems with my OCUnit test suite, when running application tests (i.e. on the device). Occasionally, I get a tricky error that seems to be thrown from the OCUnit classes. I've been trying to look through the files added to the test suites, but can't get my head around it.

I've followed the Apple documentation and looked at other tutorials when setting up my test targets, resulting in the following targets (and indented dependencies):

LogicTests

MyApp LogicTests

ApplicationTests MyApp

MyAppTesting ApplicationTests

The last (MyAppTesting) is the one I run on the device to start the test suite.

And as mentioned, the tests fail to start sometimes throwing me the following output in the console:

2010-11-17 12:02:48.537 VCCTesting[12018:307] *** Assertion failure in -[SenTestClassEnumerator init], /SourceCache/OCUnit/OCUnit-1685/SourceCode/SenTestingKit/SenTestClassEnumerator.m:137

2010-11-17 12:02:48.556 VCCTesting[12018:307] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'objc_getClassList returned more classes than it should have.'
*** Call stack at first throw:
(
0   CoreFoundation                      0x30897ed3 __exceptionPreprocess + 114
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x3002f811 objc_exception_throw + 24
2   CoreFoundation                      0x30897d15 +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 68
3   Foundation                          0x349f932f -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 62
4   SenTestingKit                       0x20107c29 -[SenTestClassEnumerator init] + 292
5   SenTestingKit                       0x201079fd +[SenTestClassEnumerator classEnumerator] + 24
6   SenTestingKit                       0x2010777d +[NSObject(SenTestRuntimeUtilities) senAllSubclasses] + 92
7   SenTestingKit                       0x201067b5 +[SenTestSuite updateCache] + 28
8   SenTestingKit                       0x20106753 +[SenTestSuite suiteForBundleCache] + 54
9   SenTestingKit                       0x201065db +[SenTestSuite structuredTests] + 14
10  SenTestingKit                       0x201065a1 +[SenTestSuite allTests] + 40
11  SenTestingKit                       0x20106573 +[SenTestSuite defaultTestSuite] + 14
12  SenTestingKit                       0x201057a3 +[SenTestProbe specifiedTestSuite] + 106
13  SenTestingKit                       0x20105d83 +[SenTestProbe runTests:] + 94
14  Foundation                          0x349c7e8d __NSFireDelayedPerform + 368
15  CoreFoundation                      0x3084e7fb __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 14
16  CoreFoundation                      0x3084e2ad __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 860
17  CoreFoundation                      0x3081f7a5 __CFRunLoopRun + 1088
18  CoreFoundation                      0x3081f277 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230
19  CoreFoundation                      0x3081f17f CFRunLoopRunInMode + 58
20  GraphicsServices                    0x31e445f3 GSEventRunModal + 114
21  GraphicsServices                    0x31e4469f GSEventRun + 62
22  UIKit                               0x31e51123 -[UIApplication _run] + 402
23  UIKit                               0x31e4f12f UIApplicationMain + 670
24  VCCTesting                          0x000234ff main + 70
25  VCCTesting                          0x00002538 start + 40
)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'

Does anyone know what could be wrong?

Thankful for any help, Kristofer

P.S. I've posted this on the App dev forums, but haven't had any luck with it yet: https://devforums.apple.com/message/333890

Answer 1

Do you have NSZombieEnabled? I had this issue when I had NSZombieEnabled set to YES in my arguments for my unit test launch target. I've tried everything (cleaning/quitting XCode/restting simulator content). The only solution so far was to disable zombie in my unit test launch