state

Applications are passively monitored to update this property as they change state. Consequently, updates to this property are inherently asynchronous.

Some guarantees are made, however:

• When launch() and activate() return, if they were successful, the state of the application will be XCUIApplication.State.runningForeground. An exception to this launching or activating a macOS agent application with LSUIElement set in its Info.plist file. This kind of application never gains foreground status and will be XCUIApplication.State.runningBackground instead.

• When terminate() returns, if it was successful, the state of the application will be XCUIApplication.State.notRunning.