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Will Appium with XCUItest driver create xcuitest scripts for me?


This is my first time trying to test my Cordova iOS app to within AppCenter. I've read documentation and it appears for UI testing on iOS hybrid apps I should use XCUITest framework so that is what I'm doing.

I set it all up and I started the test recording that is supposed to create the scripts for me but it crashes XCode and I'll spare you the details but I can't find the fix. So now I'm forced to manually create my tests in order to upload to AppCenter. Obviously I can manually create the tests and I've started doing that now but I'm not getting anywhere fast.

My question is: will Appium help me write XCUITests that I can then turn around and use to upload to AppCenter? I started trying to implement Appium but so many areas of the documentation is a struggle for me. I'll go back to trying to implement Appium if I know for a fact it will create the XCUITests for me.


Solution

  • No, Appium XCUITest driver uses a client-server architecture and sends commands to a device on the fly without generating XCTest-based code.