UITest color of a label (not UI label)

Question

Here is a pic of the table I'm working with.

I'm just trying to get the color of "requested" (gray) or "draft" (orange). I'm able to get the actual string of "requested" or "draft" by

var timeSheetStatus = 
    app.tables.element.cells.elementBoundByIndex(0).staticTexts.elementBoundByIndex(1).label

but this is just a string and not a UIlabel (if it were a UILabel I would be able to do label.textColor I believe). How do I get the color of this string so I can assert that it is indeed gray or orange?

Answer 1

I'm afraid you're not going to be able to do this via UI Testing. UI Testing can "see" the interface only to the extent that Accessibility exposes it. Thus you can "see" the text but you cannot "see" that this thing is a UILabel; UI Testing knows nothing of that. Thus you cannot explore its nature as a UILabel.