How to call API of tested app in UI Testing of Xcode7?

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Created Aug ’15

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Hi guys,

recently I've been investigating new UI Testing in Xcode7. There seems to be limited APIs we can call direct in UI test.

Can I include header files and call public API of my tested app in UI Test? so that I can have more flexibility to set my app status before running test.

I intent to call API method "-(void)reloadURL:(NSURL *)url" of my app in UI Test, but test failed with "XCTRunner -[_XCTRunnerAppDelegate myAppDelegateUtils]: unrecoginzed selector sent to instance 0x7cf0a992fe10"

In Unit Test we can call any API of the tested app, does it support in UI Testing too? I'm a start learner of Xcode and its testing...could anyone help to answer this question? Thanks!

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Hendrikvp OP

Sep ’15

I'm also trying to call some code directly of the app-under-test. Although, it is not possible to directly call code of the app, as the app itself and the testing-app run in two different processes.

It is possible to communicate between the two processes by using sockets. I'm using CocoaAsyncSocket (search on GitHub) to setup a server-socket in the test-app and a client-socket in the app-under-test. The code that has to be called in the app-under-test is wrapped in some helper-classes and are triggered by commands the server sends to the client.

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Timo_HZ OP

Dec ’15

Thank you Hendrikvp! I'll have a try later. During investigations, I found another blog which might be helpful for interaction between app-under-test and UI Testing. http://www.adamkaump.com/thoughts/uitests

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johnfromcenterville OP

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I had a UI test case that needed to use a function that was defined in my application. Since there was only a single function, I just added the UITest target as a target for the file that contained the definition. If I had more than one function, I would have created a file with all of the functions that a UI Test might need.

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