The Elegant Solution
So I went to straight to the expert – Core Contributor to CocoaPods @NeoNacho, who pointed me to the following elegant solution:# Podfile platform :ios, '9.0' use_frameworks! # My other pods def testing_pods pod 'Quick', '0.5.0' pod 'Nimble', '2.0.0-rc.1' end target 'MyTests' do testing_pods end target 'MyUITests' do testing_pods end