Modularizing Legacy Projects Using TDD: Test-Driven Development with XCTest for iOS

© Khaled El-Morabea and Hassaan El-Garem 2021

K. El-Morabea, H. El-GaremModularizing Legacy Projects Using TDDhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7428-6_3

3. UI Tests

Khaled El-Morabea¹   and Hassaan El-Garem²

(1)

Giza, Egypt

(2)

Cairo, Egypt

 

UI tests are your first line of defense, which will tell you whether your application works or not; they interact with the application precisely like what your user does. The XCUITest framework will help you query UI elements inside your app and do interactions and then validate UI properties and states. UI tests access your app using the iOS accessibility system. Accessibility is a technology that gives disabled people the same experience on our applications that all our users receive. It offers rich semantic data ...