How to access UITabBarItem from within UITests?

Question

Within User Defined Runtime Attributes I set accessibilityIdentifier's value as browseTabBarButton.

But when I try to access this from UITests using:

app.tabBars.buttons["browseTabBarButton"]

UITabBarItem is not recognized. Why?

Leastways

This seems to work on iOS 12, but not on iOS 10. – Potsherd

Answer 1

If you are trying to access the UITabBarItem to switch tabs, you can achieve this in a different way by accessing the buttons within the UITabBar:

app.tabBars.firstMatch.buttons.element(boundBy: 0).tap()

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Answer 2

Set accessibilityLabel instead of accessibilityIdentifier.

Leastways

The accessibilityLabel is what is read out by Voice Over. It's a terrible idea setting this as an ID as the OP wants. I too would like to use the accessibilityIdentifier as I need to test in different languages so I cannot rely on the buttons label or set the accessibilityLabel to an ID. – Lam

Did you get this fixed > – Excogitate

Setting accessibility labels should be avoided because they can be localized. – Memorize