xcode-ui-testing

When running an XCT UI test it is possible to put the application under test in the background with: XCUIDevice().pressButton(XCUIDeviceButton.Home) It it possible in some way to bring the app back to foreground (active state) without relaunching the application? Update for Xcode 9 : Starting in Xcode 9, you can now simply call activate() on any XCUIApplication. let myApp = XCUIApplication() myApp.activate() // bring to foreground https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xctest/xcuiapplication/2873317-activate Yes, it is. But, you'll need XCUIElement's private headers (which are available via

I have an variable that's of type .Image and class XCUIElement . Something like this: var image = app.descendantsMatchingType(.Image).elementAtIndex(0) Is there a way I can extract the actual image so I can compare it to another image? I've tried caling the value method, but it returns a string. Casting it to a UIImage always fails. I have had a conversation about this with the Apple Developer Tools evangelist recently. There is currently no way of accessing the actual image from an image view, button, etc. Similarly, there is no way to access other properties of views that might be of

So I have a situation in which I have a few textFields that are validated. I'm trying to run a UI test, and when they fail they will get an alert to pop up with an error message (potentially a different message depending on what fields are invalid and in what way). I'd like to test that not only that an alert appeared, but that the correct message is displayed. The problem I'm having is that I need to get the localized text for comparison (if I run tests in another language other than english), but when I call NSLocalizedString in the UITest it can't gather the correct localized string (just

I would like my app to run special code (e.g. resetting its state) when running in UI Testing mode. I looked at environment variables that are set when the app is running from UI Testing and there aren't any obvious parameters to differentiate between the app running normally vs in UI Testing. Is there a way to find out? Two workarounds that I'm not satisfied with are: Set XCUIApplication.launchEnvironment with some variable that I later check in the app. This isn't good because you have to set it in the setUp method of each test file. I tried setting the environment variable from the scheme

I'm trying to incorporate UI tests in my iOS project, but one thing that continues to hold me up is the fact that it seems all of the tests you write must start from the beginning of the app and work their way through. For example, if I want to test a view that is behind a login screen, my tests must first run on the login screen, enter a username/password, click login, then go to the view I want to test. Ideally, the tests for the login view and the next one would be completely isolated. Is there a way to do this, or am I missing the philosophy behind UI tests completely? Absolutely! What you

This is my case: let passwordSecureTextField = app.secureTextFields["password"] passwordSecureTextField.tap() passwordSecureTextField.typeText("wrong_password") //here is an error UI Testing Failure - Neither element nor any descendant has keyboard focus. Element: What is wrong? This is working nice for normal textFields , but problem arise only with secureTextFields . Any workarounds? This issue caused me a world of pain, but I've managed to figure out a proper solution. In the Simulator, make sure 'Hardware -> Keyboard -> Connect hardware keyboard' is off. AlexDenisov Recently we found a