Unit tests crash with Xcode 12.5 + Big Sur about statusitemcontroller HOT 1 CLOSED

It looks like system behavior changed in BigSur and NSStatusBar.system.statusItem() implements a new assert when called outside of an app context.

The fix here is to embed the framework in an app target, and run tests on the example app.

In other words, we need a separate test harness and cannot test the framework directly.

This would kind of be like trying to test a window-less view controller -- although that does not hit an assert, but I can see how attempting to create a status item without an app is an invalid state, thus the new assert.

from statusitemcontroller.