How can I dismiss/hide OSX notifications in XCUITests?

Question

I have these notifications (on CI machine):

That "pollute" my screenshots of the app that I'm testing using XCUITests. How can I dismiss or hide them during the test?

I've seen some answers for iOS (like dragging on XCUIApplication(bundleIdentifier: "com.apple.springboard")), but the same things do not seem to work for Mac as springboard doesn't exists on Mac.

Hurtado

Can you just take window-only screenshots, instead? – Footwear

No, it looks like XCUIElement.screenshot just takes a screenshot of everything on screen and then clips it to the target element. – Hurtado

Interesting, that's disappointing, given how good the usual window screenshotting capabilities of macOS are (e.g. you can screenshot a window that's partially occluded, with a transparent background, and still get a perfect shot of it). Would turning on do-not-disturb hide those notifications? – Footwear

That's kinda what I'm trying to figure out - how to hide/dismiss those notifications as part of the test, i.e. in an automated way. – Hurtado

You didn't answer my question, have you tried turning on DND? apple.stackexchange.com/questions/145487/… – Footwear

How are you taking the screenshot? Can you share that code? – Janis

@Footwear thanks! it was the solution, I just had to find the script that works on Big Sur as most answers don't. – Hurtado

@Janis XCUIElement implements XCUIScreenshotProviding, which has screenshot method: developer.apple.com/documentation/xctest/…. You can also call it on XCUIScreen too. – Hurtado

Answer 1

The solution was to enable "Do Not Disturb" mode from the terminal as that hides all notifications even the ones that you received before enabling it.

I used this script:

brew install vitorgalvao/tiny-scripts/calm-notifications
calm-notifications on

Taken from this answer: https://github.com/sindresorhus/do-not-disturb/issues/9#issuecomment-765083970

There are plenty of other answers on how to enable the "Do Not Disturb" mode from terminal, but most of them do not work on OSX Big Sur.

Hurtado