Hello.
I’ve been googling around quite abit how I should interact with elements when building up my appium test suite for IOS.
My understanding is to use accessability ID whenever I can, I’m using accessability inspector atm and from what I can tell is accessability id = the visible name of the button I’m clicking on. But since names tend to change throughout a app lifecycle I’m wondering what are my options?
I’ve tried in the xcode project to give a button a unique label or a value but can’t figure out how to find the element using this unique labe/value.
Thanks for help
Regards
in xCode add:
// in storyboard add:
// - variable name 'accessibilityIdentifier'
// - variable type 'String'
// - variable value 'your_unique_ID'
// or in code when element not exist on storyboard e.g.
titleLabel.accessibilityIdentifier = "headerTitle"
in Appium:
// Java
@iOSFindBy(id = "myButton_ID")
private IOSElement myButton;
// or
IOSElement myButton = driver.findElement(MobileBy.id("myButton_ID"))
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For iOS and accessibility ID you can also use the new…
IOSElement myButton = driver.findElement(MobileBy.AccessibilityId("myButton_ID"))
Thanks for help guys.
Also, what inspector are you guys currently using? Im using xcodes Accessability inspector, what do you recommend?
Cheers
for iOS i use only:
System.out.println(driver.getPageSource());
I user arc
and recently started using latest Appium Desktop. But still rely heavily on arc itself for now.