Great, So How Do We Get There?

In these pages, we’ll be focusing on UI Automation, a tool Apple provides that works out of the box and integrates with Xcode. We don’t need to install anything to get started and try it out. It was first introduced in iOS 4 as part of Instruments, a robust tool to trace application behavior at runtime. Along with the rest of the instruments available to us, UI Automation gives us a lot of power to assert proper behavior and run extensive performance analysis through different usage scenarios.

Here’s where we’ll be going:

  • Chapter 1, ​UI Automation Overview​, gets us started by walking through how to capture and play back in the simulator actions we perform on an app. We also take a moment to look at how UI ...

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