EarlGrey with IPA

[Mittchel]

Is it some what possible to give an IPA to EarlGrey and perform UI tests? Basically what I'm trying to do is create a cloud service where I upload an ipa file and the tests will run automatically.

[bootstraponline]

I think in theory it'd be possible with FBSimulatorControl. See facebook/idb#267

[sapieneptus]

@Mittchel There are a number of cloud solutions which have hosted devices: For example, Xamarin Test Cloud or AWS Device Farm (there are a few others as well).

There's a lot to manage when it comes to hosted device UI testing, especially for iOS - you may find it's a quicker win to use a service.

Though if you're looking to test with EarlGrey specifically, you might have to do what @bootstraponline suggested and look into FBSimulatorControl since I'm not sure how many existing cloud solutions support EarlGrey yet (most seem to support Calabash, Appium or pure XCTests).

Best of luck!

[bootstraponline]

EarlGrey runs on AWS Device Farm today. Xamarin is working on adding official support. I'm not aware of other vendors that are able to run EarlGrey tests well.

[bootstraponline]

It looks like Xcode 8 will enable using EarlGrey with an app built for testing.

Testing

New build-for-testing and test-without-building options in xcodebuild—allows separating operations for use on different machines or at different times

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/WhatsNewXcode/introduction.html