Are Elements Ready for Use?

When writing any UI Test automation it is important to interact with elements on the screen only when they are ready to be interacted with. When navigating to a new screen, you are not guaranteed that all of the screen elements exist and are hittable the very second that test code is executed. This post …

XCUIElement – Discovery

In XCUITest automation, I arrange test code in using a Screen Object model pattern. This is based on the web's Page Object model. First, there is a group of classes which model screens on an app. Second, a group of classes contain test case functions that rely on the screen classes for instances of screen …

Actionable UI Test Assertions

When writing your XCUITest UI test, it is important to provide enough data when an assertion fails so that someone looking at a test run report can most easily see what failed and begin to figure out the "why".