Automating 3rd party app without access to source code

Question

Created Nov ’16

Replies 4

Boosts 0

Views 3.4k

Participants 4

Hello,

I have unique requirement where i want to use automation frameworks such as XCUITest etc. to be able to automate 3rd party apps. I know that the XCode 8 now has native support however so far from what i can tell it only works if you have access to source code?

In my case the app is available as a binary and there is no source code access available/possible? In this case any recommendations how Ui based autoamtion can be built and used?

Previoulsy i was able to use UiAutomation framework but that has been depcreated in latest XCode. In the new XCUITest framework I havent been able to sort out how to target a 3rd party app installed on the iPhone and automate that.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Boost

Answer 1

sbhardwaj OP

Nov ’16

Anyone?

0

Answer 2

AdityaBhargav OP

Dec ’20

I am also having the same requirement., atmost if you don't have a Blackbox solution with XCUTtest then ., can go for Appium or Airtest

0

Answer 3

luozhengiw OP

Jan ’21

Maybe there is way to achieve it if you know the 3rd party apps' bundle identifiers.

The XCUIApplication provides a method that Creates a proxy for an application for the specified bundle identifier. -> see in doc

So what you can do is to create a mock app target, and then create a UI Test Target for it using XCUITest. Then in the test cases, you can init XCUIApplication instances with the above mentioned methods to do your testings.

Just my two cents.

0

Answer 4

Developer Tools Engineer OP

Apple

Jun ’22

Recommended

You can initialize an XCUIApplication with any bundle id, and automate the application that way: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xctest/xcuiapplication/2879415-init

1