Trying to understand how to use Frank - specifically how to test view titles

[Ruby24]

Hi, I'm very new to Frank (and iOS development too), but I am pretty
determined to find a way to use cucumber to develop my App using BDD.
Frank is obviously my best option, but the lack of documentation is
hurting me.

Specifically, I'm trying to make sure I am on the right scene in my
app. but I can't get it to work

I've tried using the same query that Symbiote uses, but it does not
work, so:

symbiote: navigationItemView marked:"Plan" does flash the title of the
view

but in my step definition:
items = frankly_map("navigationItemView marked:'Plan'", "text")
returns nothing

I can't find any explanations of how frankly_map actually works so its
all trial and error.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or point me at some
documentation that I've missed?

Thanks

[Pete Hodgson]

Hi, can you try specifying 'shelley_compat' as the selector engine in symbiote and then test the query again? I suspect it'll fail.

I think your ruby code is using Shelley as the selector engine, while symbiote uses Uiquery as the default selector engine (which I should change). Shelley doesn't support all of the shorthand syntax that Uiquery does.

To fix this, you probably need to replace navigationItemView with view:'UINavigationItemView'.

Cheers,
Pete
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Typed on a little bitty keyboard

[Korutech]

I ran into this exact problem and the solution was:

def check_view_title (nav_title)

title_inspector = "view:'UINavigationItemView' marked:'#{nav_title}'"

view_title = frankly_map(title_inspector, "title")

view_title.should == [nav_title] 

end

So by using "title" instead of "text" it works as expected.

I figured this out by looking at storyboard and seeing what fields were in the attributes list.