UI Testing With Xcode 7
About two weeks ago, Apple released the first beta of Xcode 7 which comes with shiny new features like built-in UI testing. Apart from Swift, this was easily the feature that excited me the most. I couldn’t wait to try it out. Not that UI testing is anything new; KIF has been around since 2011. It’s a great tool but it has its limitations: it’s slow, it’s not 100% reliable and it depends on private API. Therefore, an official solution seemed like a good idea.
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Because Xcode 7 was constantly crashing, I had to decrease the number of iterations to 5 times and then multiplied it by 4.
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XCTest makes it easy to write simple UI tests. More advanced tests are difficult or just not possible. KIF is a lot more flexible.
Compared to KIF, however, XCTest is slightly faster at finding the UI elements. With animations disabled, XCTest is really fast.
