Using Kiwi with UI Components on iOS

Trying to get unit testing with Kiwi while being able to use UIKit components was beginning to get frustrating.  The issue is that the tests would crash whenever trying to initialize any UIView components such as UILabel, UITextField, etc.  Well, to some the answer may be obvious, but to relative newbies to iOS like myself it was not.  In order to create instances of UI components you need an actual application running(duh?).  When setting up a unit test bundle in Xcode you can either set it up with or without an app that hosts the tests.  Logic tests are done in test bundles that don't have a host app and application tests are done in test bundles that have a host app.  So for those struggling to create tests that rely on UI components, here's how you do it.

• If you're creating a framework that doesn't have an existing application already, add a new target and call it something like "MyTestApp".  All that you really need is main and the app delegate so you can get away with creating an "Empty Application".
• If you don't already have a test bundle, add a new Cocoa Touch Unit Testing Bundle.
•  Follow the steps under "Setup Application Unit Tests" at the following link.
  
  http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/ios_development_workflow/135-Unit_Testing_Applications/unit_testing_applications.html

Thanks to Allen Ding the creator of Kiwi for his help and pointing me in the right direction.  Happy testing!