Automated testing for iPhone [closed]

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I know this one is going to be a long-shot, but I thought I'd try. Does anyone know of any automated test anything for the iPhone simulator? I'd love it if there was something like Selenium but for the iPhone simulator. I don't need anything fancy like assertions, just something that can fake out taps on a screen so I can stop abusing my trackpad. :)

Is there a way to send taps or keyevents (like on android over adb) to iOS devices?

Phlegethon answered 31/12, 2008 at 6:0 Comment(2)

The face that this question gets so many favs but gets closed, says something about the decision. – Cogon 19/2, 2013 at 5:37

The answers to this question have gotten very old since it was closed. Newer options include Appium and ios-driver (both of which are Selenium compatible), as well as Calabash, Frank, and Zucchini. – Sullins 5/4, 2013 at 20:45

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Here's an article about automated user interface testing for the iPhone that you may find helpful. It's a little kludgy but it probably gets the job done for certain tasks. Note that I haven't yet tried it myself.

Ovid answered 31/12, 2008 at 6:0 Comment(0)

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iPhone OS 4.0 (just announced) includes a "UIAutomation Instrument" for test automation.

Automated testing
Automate the testing of your application by scripting touch events using the new UIAutomation Instrument.

From: http://developer.apple.com/technologies/iphone/whats-new.html#tools

Nor answered 31/12, 2008 at 6:0 Comment(1)

Only drawback is that you need to use JavaScript, which is ok itself, but you have not much tools support like decent IDE (there are ones for web development, but not a single one for JS). As alternative you could try Sikuli (www.sikuli.org) which allows to automate anything. But I would go with Instruments from Apple. – Xanthochroid 17/2, 2011 at 22:13

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Here's an article about automated user interface testing for the iPhone that you may find helpful. It's a little kludgy but it probably gets the job done for certain tasks. Note that I haven't yet tried it myself.

Ovid answered 31/12, 2008 at 6:0 Comment(0)

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Gorilla Logic has just open sourced a true record/playback functional testing tool for the iPhone. It's called FoneMonkey and it's freely available at http://www.gorillalogic.com/fonemonkey.

Prepare answered 31/12, 2008 at 6:0 Comment(0)

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How to use UIAutomation to create iPhone UI tests:

http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1646-how-to-use-uiautomation-to-create-iphone-ui-tests/

Forenamed answered 31/12, 2008 at 6:0 Comment(1)

UIAutomation has limitations that hinder its use for automated testing. There's no command line interface, can't setup the test environment before hand. Its manual start stop. I have been able to get it started with Automator. – Lindahl 6/5, 2011 at 6:12

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Telerik just released an automated testing tool for iOS - http://www.telerik.com/automated-testing-tools/ios-testing/ios-application-testing.aspx

Suspension answered 31/12, 2008 at 6:0 Comment(0)

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Square just released their testing framework

http://corner.squareup.com/2011/07/ios-integration-testing.html

Jeuz answered 31/12, 2008 at 6:0 Comment(0)

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Try this:

http://code.google.com/p/uispec/

UISpec is a Behavior Driven Development framework for the iPhone that provides a full automated testing solution that drives the actual iPhone UI. It is modeled after the very popular RSpec for Ruby

Vide answered 31/12, 2008 at 6:0 Comment(0)

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