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Vish
Vish

Reputation: 2164

Xcode UI Testing: staticText's label not updating as text is updated?

Background

I am investigating migration of our Appium-based automation to Xcode UI Testing. Given that our app is written in Objective C I need to use Objective-C for the test code as well.

The app I am automating tests for, has a progress bar whose values I want to read. It's not a UIAProgressIndicator, just a UIAStaticText whose value increases from "0" to "100%".

The XCUIElement corresponding to this staticText can be accessed as 

[[app staticTexts] elementBoundByIndex:1]

The progress bar will take different amounts of time - and I need to monitor the progress, which will involve reading the value (and parsing it of course).

I tried getting the value using various methods - [XCUIElement value] and [XCUIElement label].

NSString *prog = [[[app staticTexts] elementBoundByIndex:1] label];

The label approach is getting me the progress string, so I am doing this in a loop, for e.g. 

  int i=0;
  while (i<5) {
     //custom sleep method
     [self.helper threadSleepForSeconds:[NSNumber numberWithInt:2]];
     //now get progress text
     NSString *prog = [[[app staticTexts] elementBoundByIndex:1] label];

     i++;
    }

However, as the progress changes, the label attribute does not update - it seems to keep showing the first value that was read, as though it was cached somewhere.

i.e the log output shows (assuming the first value read was 19%):

19%
19%
19%
19%

I am quite unable to figure out why this happens. Any help?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 855

Answers (1)

James Goe
James Goe

Reputation: 522

There is no synthesized event, so Xcode doesn't attempt to take a new snapshot of the UI elements on the screen. This is by design so that assigning multiple ui element variables in a specific view doesn't overwork your computer.

Unfortunately, manual testing may be your only option if you're not satisfied with unit testing.

Upvotes: 2

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