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What is XCUITest and XCTest Xcode UI Testing is also known as XCUITest  is a huge expansion of the testing technology in the Apple platform apps like iOS.XCTest is a general testing framework, used for unit integration, network, or performance testing of Apple platform apps. With XCTest you can treat it as a xUnit type of test framework, which can be used for lower-level testing. The XCUITest framework is an extension of the XCTest framework but there are some basic differences between XCTest and XCUITest framework. XCTest framework is a completely white-box framework where you can access the data and API in your main app. XCUITest is completely black-box to your app, so you cannot access the data or API of your main app. Page Object Model (POM) The main idea behind the Page Object Model (POM) design pattern, is to create an object repository for the pages in the application, which will then be used in the tests. In other words, instead of including the p

Bitrise is one of the best solutions for mobile application development. It gives us many mobile app-related steps to create CI/CD (continuous integration / continuous deployment) pipelines (or workflows as in the Bitrise). Around the mobile application development ecosystem, we have many cloud solutions to make quick and reliable development processes. Browserstack is also one of them, it is widely used in web development and testing but also it also has nice features like 'App Live' and 'App Automate' for mobile app testing. In this post, I want to share how we can integrate Browserstack to Bitrise to run XCUITest. Run XCUITest on Browserstack via Bitrise If you want to run XCUITest on a real device then you must build the for generic iOS devices. Building for generic iOS devices requires provisioning so you should ensure that you added the provisioning step to the workflow. Also to be able to run an iOS build on a real device, the device should be registered to the

Testing will be more efficient when testers and developers work in collaboration. Especially when it comes to automated testing, we have many challenging points that should be solved with the help of the other team members. This is a basic explanation of the cross-functional team. For mobile application automated end-to-end testing, this cross-functional team approach can be easily applied by contributing the same code base so native toolings give us this. This can increase the quality of the tests code and the framework by the feedback from the developers, and increase the quality of the tests by the feedback from the testers. In this post, I want to give some idea about the benefits of using native mobile automation toolings such as Espresso and XCUITest. What is Native Tooling Native mobile automation toolings are integrated libraries to the mobile application development framework so that developers can write UI tests for the products under development. Native toolings are part o

When you need to test the server side development via Mobile application in isolation, you can redirect the host of the API over the hosts file in the emulator. By this way, with the same application that users have, you can test the new development before passing it to live servers. Android Application I have using GenyMotion for emulating android devices. You can edit the hosts file in GenyMotion by the following commands, at the third step you need to change `hosts` file then push it emulator. adb root adb pull /etc/hosts hosts adb remount adb push hosts /system/etc See the example below, the host of the application is www.morhipo.com which is now hitting the test server. The third step is important, if you don't remount new host file can not be push to device . ~ adb root adbd is already running as root ~ adb pull /etc/hosts hosts ~ cat hosts ~ echo "10.1.6.37 www.morhipo.com" > hosts ~ cat hosts 10.1.6.37 www.morhipo.com ~ adb remount remount

Appium is an open source tool for mobile test automation, you can automate functional test cases for Android and iOS application. As in my some previous posts, I explained Calabash and I just used Ruby for writing test cases because Calabash only supports Ruby and as I know they have plan to support Java. However Appium doesn't have this language constriction. Since it uses Webdriver, it supports the languages which are supported by Webdriver. It means that Java, Objective-C, PHP, Python, C#, Clojure, Perl, JavaScript with Node.js and plus Ruby are supported. You just install the language client you want to test and then write your test cases. Check for the client for your favourite languages from Appium page . Install Appium: npm install -g appium Install Appium Client: npm install wd Install Python Appium Client: pip install Appium-Python-Client Ensure that you have Python installed, recommend to have 2.7 or above: python --version Ensure that you have