UI Testing iOS, Selecting Secure Text Entry textField

Question

I have password and password conf textFields that I have applied the "Secure Text Entry", to mask the password. However, when I run the UI tests, those fields can not be found getting

UI Testing Failure - No matches found for "password" TextField

I'm attempting to select the fields like so:

let passwordTextField = app.textFields["password"]

but then it fails when I try to tap:

passwordTextField.tap()

Any ideas on how I can access the field?

Jdavie

What's the failure message? – Spinet

The failure specifically is "UI Testing Failure - No matches found for "password" TextField". But when I unselect "Secure Text Entry" it finds it no problem – Jdavie

Can you open the Accessibility Inspector and see what the text field's identifier is? It might not be password when it becomes a sure entry field. – Spinet

Also, can you try using secureTextFields instead of textFields? – Spinet

Just rechecked, the Accessibility Inspector and the identifier is "password". – Jdavie

Answer 1

As discussed in the comments, when accessing a secure text field use the secureTextFields selector.

let passwordTextField = app.secureTextFields["password"]
passwordTextField.tap()
passwordTextField.typeText("my secure password")

Spinet

Wow. I've looked at several articles regarding this UI Testing and this is the first time I've heard of the secureTextFields selector. Thanks! – Invocate

Answer 2

Also if you need to type to secureTextField

If menu I/O Hardware Keyboard is ON typeText not working for secureTextField.

Use below to type to secure field

        password.tap()

        app.keys["t"].tap()
        app.keys["e"].tap()
        app.keys["s"].tap()
        app.keys["t"].tap()

Conto

Answer 3

Joe's answer is good, but it was insufficient for my use case. I had to find all text fields by index, no matter if it's a normal text field or a secure text field. I couldn't find any information on the web about this.

That's what I came up with:

// elementType must be specified as integer
//
// See:
//  * https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xctest/xcuielementtype/xcuielementtypetextfield
//  * https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xctest/xcuielementtype/xcuielementtypesecuretextfield
let textFieldPredicate = NSPredicate(format: "elementType == 49")
let secureTextFieldPredicate = NSPredicate(format: "elementType == 50")
let predicate = NSCompoundPredicate(
    orPredicateWithSubpredicates: [
        textFieldPredicate,
        secureTextFieldPredicate
    ]
)

let textFields = app.descendants(matching: .any).matching(predicate)
let textField = textFields.firstMatch
textField.tap()
textField.typeText('yeah boi')

Hydroxy