iOS UI Testing and Why It Does Not Always Work: a.k.a. Pushing The Limits of the XCTest Framework When Apple introduced the new UI automation framework in 2015 we became excited. We could finally test the UI and the behaviour of our applications using Swift (or Objective-C) and the native library. Previously, we had to write scripts in JavaScript and execute them using Instruments. This was not the easiest way to write, maintain, and debug tests. Thankfully, since Apple introduced the new framework things began to change...but did they really?
