CODEWITHSUNDEEP
swiftmacosnstextviewxctestcasexcuitest
ocodo
ocodo

Reputation: 30248

XCTestCase - how to assert on a NSTextView containing String?

I have a macOS project that I'm creating UI tests for.

While it's relatively easy to find staticText, buttons, etc. by their text value. Using a subscript lookup on .textViews doesn't (seem to) work.

I've managed to get a reference to the NSTextView I want to inspect using .textViews.firstMatch but I can't figure out how to assert on it's string value.

I'm looking for something that works like this.

XCTAssertEqual(prefs.textViews.firstMatch.stringValue, "Enter text below")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 526

Answers (2)

staticVoidMan
staticVoidMan

Reputation: 20234

Simply value should do.
It's available on XCUIElementAttributes and is of type Any? that varies based on the type of the element.

XCTAssertEqual(prefs.textViews.firstMatch.value as! String, 
               "Enter text below")

Ref:

Upvotes: 2

christopherdrum
christopherdrum

Reputation: 1523

If you print out the debugDescription of the element, you should see which parameter holds the value you want to assert equality on. Likely it will be .value which you can simply coerce into a String for your purposes. Strings adhere to == equality checks, making it trivial to compare two strings with just a simple XCTAssert(originalTextViewValue == "String I want to value check against")

Upvotes: 1

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