UI test: Unable to access view in table view

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Created Jul ’23

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I have some view which contents I want to interact with in UI test. In the first case, when view is added to view controller everything is fine - I can access all its contents. However, when the same view is added to table view cell, some of its content become unaccessible.

Here is view example

class SomeView: UIView {
    required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError()
    }
    
    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        
        let label = UILabel(frame: .init(x: 5, y: 5, width: 100, height: 20))
        label.text = "Label"
        label.accessibilityIdentifier = "label"
        addSubview(label)
        
        let button = UIButton(frame: .init(x: 5, y: 35, width: 100, height: 20))
        button.setTitle("Button", for: .normal)
        button.accessibilityIdentifier = "button"
        button.setTitleColor(.black, for: .normal)
        addSubview(button)
        
        let view = UIView(frame: .init(x: 5, y: 65, width: 100, height: 20))
        view.backgroundColor = .red
        view.accessibilityIdentifier = "container"
        addSubview(view)
        
        let view2 = UIView(frame: .init(x: 0, y: 0, width: 100, height: 20))
        view2.backgroundColor = .red
        view2.accessibilityIdentifier = "inner_view"
        view.addSubview(view2)
        
        let label2 = UILabel(frame: .init(x: 0, y: 0, width: 100, height: 20))
        label2.text = "Label2"
        label2.accessibilityIdentifier = "inner_label"
        view2.addSubview(label2)
                
        accessibilityIdentifier = "some_view"
    }
}

And output from UI test

Attributes: Application, 0x7fb4b9d0e680, pid: 71041, label: 'UITest'
Element subtree:
 →Application, 0x7fb4b9d0e680, pid: 71041, label: 'UITest'
    Window (Main), 0x7fb4b9d0ae20, {{0.0, 0.0}, {390.0, 844.0}}
      Other, 0x7fb4b9b08bc0, {{0.0, 0.0}, {390.0, 844.0}}
        Other, 0x7fb4b9b0b040, {{0.0, 0.0}, {390.0, 844.0}}
          Other, 0x7fb4b9b0ac80, {{0.0, 0.0}, {390.0, 844.0}}
            Other, 0x7fb4b9b09960, {{0.0, 50.0}, {200.0, 100.0}}, identifier: 'some_view'
              StaticText, 0x7fb4b9b0ec80, {{5.0, 55.0}, {100.0, 20.0}}, identifier: 'label', label: 'Label'
              Button, 0x7fb4b9b10770, {{5.0, 85.0}, {100.0, 20.0}}, identifier: 'button', label: 'Button'
                StaticText, 0x7fb4b9b0bbf0, {{28.0, 84.0}, {54.0, 22.0}}, label: 'Button'
              Other, 0x7fb4b981b1d0, {{5.0, 115.0}, {100.0, 20.0}}, identifier: 'container'
                Other, 0x7fb4b981b2e0, {{5.0, 115.0}, {100.0, 20.0}}, identifier: 'inner_view'
                  StaticText, 0x7fb4b981c0d0, {{5.0, 115.0}, {100.0, 20.0}}, identifier: 'inner_label', label: 'Label2'
            Table, 0x7fb4b981c1e0, {{16.0, 343.0}, {361.0, 244.0}}
              Cell, 0x7fb4b981c2f0, {{16.0, 343.0}, {361.0, 100.0}}
                StaticText, 0x7fb4b981c420, {{21.0, 348.0}, {100.0, 20.0}}, identifier: 'label', label: 'Label'
                StaticText, 0x7fb4b981c530, {{21.0, 408.0}, {100.0, 20.0}}, identifier: 'inner_label', label: 'Label2'
                Button, 0x7fb4b981c640, {{21.0, 378.0}, {100.0, 20.0}}, identifier: 'button', label: 'Button'
                  StaticText, 0x7fb4b981c750, {{44.0, 377.0}, {54.0, 22.0}}, label: 'Button'
                Other, 0x7fb4b981c860, {{16.0, 343.0}, {361.0, 100.0}}
                  Other, 0x7fb4b981c970, {{16.0, 343.0}, {361.0, 100.0}}
                Other, 0x7fb4b9b05400, {{36.0, 442.7}, {341.0, 0.3}}
Path to element:
 →Application, 0x7fb4b9d0e680, pid: 71041, label: 'UITest'
Query chain:
 →Find: Target Application 'com.temp.temp.UITest'
  Output: {
    Application, 0x7fb4b981ce80, pid: 71041, label: 'UITest'
  }

As you can see, in table view I am missing some_view, container and inner_view views. Is there a way to access these elements in table view?

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