Preventing iOS Automation Instruments from automatically retrying the test after failure

Question

When my test runs into a critical failure such as tapping an invalid element the Automation Instrument attempts to restart the test from the beginning which results in a lot of errors and can even lag my system, making it difficult to stop the test. I don't have the repeat option enabled. Is there a way of preventing this behavior?

Answer 1

I reckon what you can do is: try capturing when your test runs into a failure by means of a try/catch block.

When your test fails, it will jump inside the catch block and you can stop it there.

Maybe something like this.

try {
  // Run your tests
} catch (exception){
  UIALogger.logFail("Test failed with error message: " + exception.message);
}

I think that the logFail() method should be enough to keep your tests from running indefinately.