Test iOS Apps with UI Automation

Chapter 2Testing Behavior with UI Automation

We’ve learned a bit about how UI Automation functions, but the script we recorded doesn’t do anything useful for us. Let’s put UI Automation to work. We’re going to write a simple acceptance test that focuses on verifying application behavior through the eyes of the users, what they do, and what they expect. Automated acceptance-test scripts are a great way to demonstrate that we know how a feature is supposed to work, and we can re-run them at any time to inform us if the feature breaks.

Let’s start with something simple and write a test to make sure that the user is able to remove a search term from the list in our app, like we see in the following figure.

Figure 12. Deleting the “coffee” search ...