XCUIElement getting underlying element object such as WebView

Question

Is there any way to capture the actual UI Cocoa object? IE:

let window = app.windows["mainScreen"]
let view = window.webViews["myWebView"]
let webView = view as! WebView

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no. Xcode UI Testing runs in a separate process from the production application. There is no way to access any UI/Cocoa objects when running through these tests.