Running KIF tests from command line

[Chen Yingliu]

Does anyone know how to run KIF tests from command line?

I am looking for some tools for running iOS integration tests on real device other than uiautomation. The problem with uiautomation is:

1. It can't run tests on more than one device because we can only run one "instrument" process at the same time.

2. It is a really black box testing but for performance tests we want more instrumentation.

3. Since it is a black box testing, we can't even check or kill app's process. This is pretty annoying and our work around is to just re-install the app.

I've tried KIF and it meets our requirements quite well. However I still have some issue: If I just want to run some test class/method,  I can only do it using Xcode, and Xcode will try to re-build and re-install the main app before starting tests. This is unacceptable since our app is pretty big and re-build and re-install takes more than 10 minutes.

So I am wondering if we have any command line tools to run KIF tests which:

1. Can specify which test class/method to run.

2. Only re-install apps or push test bundle if requested.

Thanks!

[Artem Durandin]

XCTool will be suitable for your needs:

https://github.com/facebook/xctool

[Chen Yingliu]

xctool only support running tests on simulator but we need to run those tests running on devices to measure performance, see

https://github.com/facebook/xctool/blob/master/xctool/xctool/OCUnitIOSDeviceTestRunner.m#L27

[Artem Durandin]

Okay then. You can try xcodebuild it will be work for you. For running specific class/method you need to turn off it in your scheme settings.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/xcodebuild.1.html

[abhinavn]

Check this out, using Fruitstrap

http://seanfreitag.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/running-ui-tests-on-an-ios-device-in-a-continuous-integration-environment/