I enjoyed speaking at the Pacific NW Software Quality Conference 2019 in Portland earlier this week. I am thankful for the support from conference attendees as well as others who allowed me to develop my presentation. My conference tech paper reviewers, Andrew Peterson and Eric Haneberg, were vital in guiding me through the process of … Continue reading About PNSQC 2019 and What Your UI Tests Need to Say
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Use the Debugger When Writing XCUITest Code
I prefer to use the debugger built into Xcode, lldb, when learning how to locate elements on the screen. I have the ability to display the elements tree for every screen in my app. From that I can see accessibility identifiers, labels, values for UI elements plus coordinates for each element. From this information, I … Continue reading Use the Debugger When Writing XCUITest Code
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 … Continue reading Are Elements Ready for Use?
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".