Xcode/iOS xctest - Build input file cannot be found

Question

I created the first unit test target in our iOS application by simply clicking through the plus icon inside the test tab on the left navigator. (The target to be tested is set to the main application)

The unit test target created itself successfully but when I try to run the pre-generated tests, it outputs an error message. The error message displays that the build input file cannot be found. More specifically, the file /Plugins/XXXTests.xctest/XXXTests cannot be found. I double checked and in fact that file is not in that directory.

While I could not find anything similar to this problem, I tried everything that was close to it but nothing seemed to fix problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

It's been a while but we finally found a solution! The problem was in the Podfile where our pods weren't being applied to the different targets of our app. To fix the solution we had to define a shared pod module that included all of our pods and then we applied this new module to each different targets in our app.

Our Podfile looks like this now

I hope this helps out some people!

Answer 2

Do you have it set properly in schemes?

Go to Product -> Scheme -> Edit Scheme -> Test and check, if your test target is properly added to the correct scheme. It should look something like this:

Answer 3

For me, it was because the test source files are not included in the test target.

Including those test files in the test target solved it.