Changed +load method order in Xcode 7

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TL,DR: It’s xctest’s fault, not objc’s.

This is because of how the xctest executable (the one that actually runs the unit tests, located at $XCODE_DIR/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Library/Xcode/Agents/xctest loads its bundle.

Pre-Xcode 7, it loaded all referenced test bundles before running any tests. This can be seen (for those that care), by disassembling the binary for Xcode 6.4, the relevant section can be seen for the symbol -[XCTestTool runTestFromBundle:].

In the Xcode 7 version of xctest, you can see that it delays loading of testing bundles until the actual test is run by XCTestSuite, in the actual XCTest framework, which can be seen in the symbol __XCTestMain, which is only invoked AFTER the test’s host application is set-up.

Because the order of these being invoked internally changed, the way that your test’s +load methods are invoked is different. There were no changes made to the objective-c-runtime’s internals.

If you want to fix this in your application, you can do a few things. First, you could manually load your bundle using +[NSBundle bundleWithPath:], and invoking -load on that.

You could also link your test target back to your test host application (I hope you’re using a separate test host than your main application!), which would make it be automatically loaded when xctest loads the host application.

I would not consider it a bug, it’s just an implementation detail of XCTest.

Source: Just spend the last 3 days disassembling xctest for a completely unrelated reason.

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