How to test if navigationBar button is enabled/disabled in UI test on iOS?

Question

In my iOS app I've added UI tests, where I need to check if navigationBar button is enabled/disabled at different point of time.

Currently I'm using:

XCUIElement* saveButton = self.app.navigationBars[@"TSSIDAddCardView"].buttons[@"Save"];


XCTAssertEqual(saveButton.hittable, YES);

However, this always returns YES. The .exists test returns YES as well.

Does anyone knows how to do the proper test?

Answer 1

XCUIElement conforms to XCUIElementAttributes, which provides @property(readonly, getter=isEnabled) BOOL enabled;.

So you can just do this on your XCUIElement* saveButton:

_Objective-C

XCTAssertEqual(saveButton.enabled, YES);

_Swift

XCTAssertEqual(saveButton.isEnabled, true)

Answer 2

You can get the actual UI component via the value property.

With that you can check if it is enabled or not.

Something like:

UIBarButtonItem *saveButton = self.app.navigationBars[@"TSSIDAddCardView"].buttons[@"Save"].value;
XCTAssertTrue(saveButton.enabled);

Answer 3

So with help of @InsertWittyName I found the solution:

UIBarButtonItem *saveButton = self.app.navigationBars[@"TSSIDAddCardView"].buttons[@"Save"];
XCTAssertFalse(saveButton.enabled);