--- title: What about state-driven SwiftUI tests, did anything... description: SwiftUI state-driven tests can fail silently because SwiftUI batches state updates asynchronously. Checking state too early in tests produces false positives... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-about-state-driven-swiftui-tests-did-anything-unexpected-show-up--ozt3pqoef twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What about state-driven SwiftUI tests, did anything unexpected show up? | daily.dev og:description: SwiftUI state-driven tests can fail silently because SwiftUI batches state updates asynchronously. Checking state too early in tests produces false positives... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-about-state-driven-swiftui-tests-did-anything-unexpected-show-up--ozt3pqoef og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oZT3PQOeF.png og:image:alt: What about state-driven SwiftUI tests, did anything unexpected show up? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What about state-driven SwiftUI tests, did anything unexpected show up? **[Rebeloper](https://daily.dev/sources/rebeloper)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SwiftUI state-driven tests can fail silently because SwiftUI batches state updates asynchronously. Checking state too early in tests produces false positives that only break on edge cases. 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