UIAutomation has been around since iOS 4.0, however up until now there has been no easy way to run tests from the command line.
This has limited our ability to integrate UIA tests into our automatic test system.
The good news is that it now appears to be possible in iOS 5.
It’s actually fairly simple using the new instruments command line interface.
Check out the commands below to target both the device and the Simulator.
instruments -w <device_udid> -t /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Library/Instruments/PlugIns/AutomationInstrument.bundle/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate <application.app> -e UIASCRIPT <script.js> -e UIARESULTSPATH <output_results_path>instruments -t /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Library/Instruments/PlugIns/AutomationInstrument.bundle/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate <full_path_to_application> -e UIASCRIPT <script.js> -e UIARESULTSPATH <output_results_path>
What’s more, this interface now even appears to print out all your logs to stdout.
This is going to make adoption of UIAutomation much easier for automatic build systems and as a part of other automated test systems.
With the release of Mac OS 10.7, or Lion, we wanted to give you an update on the status of our widgets and their compatibility with Lion.
At this stage, we are aware that our ISP Usage widgets do not work on Lion. This is due to some changes to the way Dashboard widgets are rendered under the new OS. But don’t worry, a fix is already in the works – in fact, we’ve been testing a beta build of the widget codebase for a few weeks now and we are very close to a stable release.
We’re also using this as an opportunity to fix up some other bugs with specific ISPs to take into account recent plan changes and the like.
We’ll post an update on here, and to our Twitter feed, when the new widgets are available for download, but in the meantime, the current versions will continue to work just fine on Leopard and Snow Leopard.
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A new version v1.3.0 of ISP usage is now live the App Store.
IMPORTANT: Optus Customers, please wait for v1.3.1 before updating as there is a crash on launch bug in 1.3.0.
It contains enhancements and better error handling for Optus, BigPond and TPG accounts. This should resolve all known reported problems that have had in app problem reports submitted.
v1.3.0 also contains HiDPI art for iPhone 4 and is Multitasking aware.
TPG, earlier today updated their usage feed preventing our usage application from working correctly.
An update to resolve the issues has been submitted to the App Store as v1.2.2.
Now we wait!
Thanks for your patience and understanding.