I was looking for a solution to my problem where in I need to send my app to background and re-launch it from the recents after a particular time interval. deactivateAppForDuration() was used to achieve this in Instruments UIAutomation. Does anybody know how to achieve that in XCTest?
Not positive if this will work, as I haven't tested it yet, but it's worth a shot. If nothing else it should give you a good idea on where to look.
XCUIApplication class provides methods to both terminate and launch your app programmatically: https://developer.apple.com/reference/xctest/xcuiapplication
XCUIDevice class allows you to simulate a button press on the device: https://developer.apple.com/reference/xctest/xcuidevicebutton
You can use these along with UIControl and NSURLSessionTask to suspend your application.
An example of this process using Swift 3 might look something like this (syntax may be slightly different for Swift 2 and below):
func myXCTest() {
UIControl().sendAction(#selector(NSURLSessionTask.suspend), to: UIApplication.shared(), for: nil)
Timer.scheduledTimer(timeInterval: 5.0, target: self, selector: #selector(launchApp), userInfo: nil, repeats: false)
}
func launchApp() {
XCUIApplication().launch()
}
Another way may be simply executing a home button press, and then relaunching the app after a timer passes:
func myXCTest {
XCUIDevice().press(XCUIDeviceButton.Home)
Timer.scheduledTimer(timeInterval: 5.0, target: self, selector: #selector(launchApp), userInfo: nil, repeats: false)
}
Neither of these ways may do what you're asking, or work perfectly, but hopefully, it will give you a starting point. You can play with it and find a solution that works for you. Good luck!