PublicAutomation is a wrapper around the private framework used by Apple's UIAutomation tools.

PublicAutomation exposes a nice Objective C API for simulating user interactions (touches, swipes, etc.).

PublicAutomation is young, but already exposes enough functionality to write test automation scripts for most apps.

PublicAutomation is best used together with a view selection library (like Shelley or Igor) and a nice high-level testing framework (like Cucumber). You should use Frank for that. It ties PublicAutomation and these other tools together for you in a pretty bow.

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Tap

[UIAutomationBridge tapView:myView];
// or
[UIAutomationBridge tapView:myView atPoint:CGPointMake(12.0,34.0)];

Swipe

[UIAutomationBridge swipeView:myView inDirection:PADirectionLeft];

Type

[UIAutomationBridge tapView:myTextField];
if( [UIAutomationBridge checkForKeyboard] ){
  [UIAutomationBridge typeIntoKeyboard:@"ZOMG I am typing. 123 and $%^ work too!"];
}

Credits

PublicAutomation uses a modified version of KIF's awesome keyboard-typing code. Thanks guys!

License

Copyright 2012 ThoughtWorks, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.