Reset the simulator and re-enable usability settings?

[Rodney Degracia]

Is there a way to 'reset' the simulator and re-enable the usability settings, via command-line?

There are some instances where I would like to make sure the simulator is 'clean' before running the Frank cucumber tests, but I'd rather have it do automatically rather than manually.

Rodney Degracia
rdeg...@gmail.com

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[Pete Hodgson]

Can you use applescript to invoke the "Reset Content and Settings" menu item, in the same way that we invoke the rotation and memory warnings in the simulator?

[Stewart Gleadow]

I posted this on the KIF list, so some of you may have already seen it, but you can turn on accessibility programmatically either by editing the plist file in a Ruby/shell script before you run the tests. I find the easiest way is to enable accessibility on application launch using the following code (called from the app delegate for #ifdef FRANK)

#ifdef FRANK
#import <dlfcn.h>
#endif

...

#ifdef FRANK

        NSString *simulatorRoot = [[[NSProcessInfo processInfo] environment] objectForKey:@"IPHONE_SIMULATOR_ROOT"];
if (simulatorRoot)
{
void *appSupportLibrary = dlopen([[simulatorRoot stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppSupport.framework/AppSupport"] fileSystemRepresentation], RTLD_LAZY);
CFStringRef (*copySharedResourcesPreferencesDomainForDomain)(CFStringRef domain) = dlsym(appSupportLibrary, "CPCopySharedResourcesPreferencesDomainForDomain");
if (copySharedResourcesPreferencesDomainForDomain)
{
CFStringRef accessibilityDomain = copySharedResourcesPreferencesDomainForDomain(CFSTR("com.apple.Accessibility"));
if (accessibilityDomain)
{
CFPreferencesSetValue(CFSTR("ApplicationAccessibilityEnabled"), kCFBooleanTrue, accessibilityDomain, kCFPreferencesAnyUser, kCFPreferencesAnyHost);
CFRelease(accessibilityDomain);
}
}
}

#endif

cheers,

Stew

[Pete Hodgson]

This is great Stew - not turning on accessibility is a common stumbling block when first getting started with iOS automation. Thanks for sharing. Mind if I put this code into the Frank server?

Oh, and do you know if this approach also shows the annoying Accessibility Inspector? I would be happy to stop having to drag that thing out of the way!

[Stewart Gleadow]

Go right ahead. Sorry I've been so lazy with pull requests to not have integrated it already! I haven't used it in a while, but from memory, it does _not_ show the accessibility inspector - which is usually great.

Occasionally, I turn on the accessibility inspector to actually inspect elements on the screen, in which case you still need to enable in the settings app - but Symbiote is usually better for that kind of thing anway.

- Stew

[Stewart Gleadow]

Pete,

I added this same functionality to KIF, so you can probably grab the code straight from there...https://github.com/square/KIF/pull/78 or https://github.com/sgleadow/KIF

Having used KIF for the first time today, it seems robust and fast... but the tests have very verbose syntax compared with Cucumber, and would be unreadable to non-Objective C folks. I guess I can't have my cake and eat it too.

cheers,

Stew

[Heath Borders]

I've just added stew's code to my main method, and it works great.  Without it, my tests don't pass on a freshly reset simulator.  Are there plans to incorporate this feature?

[Peter Hodgson]

Hi Heath,

I took a quick run at adding this, but for some reason it didn't work straight away. I then immediately got distracted by something shiny, and forgot to come back to it and figure it out. I'm confident that I was just making some kind of dumb mistake and didn't take the time to figure out what.

If someone sends me a pull request I would be very happy to accept it :)

Cheers,

Pete

[Heath Borders]

I just issued a pull request.

I didn't see any directions for checking out the project and getting everything to build, so I just had to guess (it wasn't that hard).  Do you have plans to write up some directions for building the project after cloning?

I had to make a bunch of changes to the project in order for it to compile.  Mostly, UISpec has changed its layout (source is now under UISpec/src) and removed some files (UISwizzle.h, .m).  Also, the update_from_github.rb and update_from_svn.rb scripts no longer exist.  Is it possible that those scripts were erroneously included in a submodule?

Thanks!

[Peter Hodgson]

Thanks a lot for this Heath. I've pulled in your commit. If I get a chance I might pull the code you added into a seperate method and remove the now redundant accessibility checking code.

Regarding the procedure for checking out and building, a 'git submodule update --init' followed by 'rake' should do the trick, but that's obviously not clear. I will add something to the README. The update_from_* scripts aren't needed any more now that we're using git submodules to pull in 3rd party code. Where did you find reference to those scripts?

Cheers,
Pete

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[Heath Borders]

They were still referenced in Frank.xcodeproj and FrankFramework.xcodeproj. I can issue another pull request if you want.

[Peter Hodgson]

Sure, always happy to get pull requests.

Cheers,
Pete
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