I'm new to iOS development. My question is how can I send data to my API so that I can set a state in iOS. For example if I have an app that can create and delete contacts. How can I send data to the API so that if I want to test just deleting a contact when I launch the test a contact has already been created so that I can just test deleting it? My app uses a GraphQL API. I tried calling the function that creates contacts by hardcoding the data needed and putting the function within a launch argument then using that launch argument in my test but that doesn't seem to work. So I'm not sure if this is possible to do within xcuitest. Any suggestions?
I think you can use mock services like open source wiremock
Connect the app with wiremock and stub the data for API calls that you want to use :
http://wiremock.org/docs/stubbing/
You can send data to wiremock and wiremock return the same data when you want to use it