How to Unit Test locale-specific local notifications

Question

I have just added local notifications to my app. These notifications are supposed to fire only if the app Locale's regionCode (i.e. Locale.current.regionCode) is "US" or "CA". I am not interested in the locale's language.

I will also want to write the complementary test case, but once I know how to write one test case, the other will follow naturally.

Therefore, my question is: How can a Locale be injected into the test (see testSuccessfulNotificationDelivery())?

LocalNotificationTests.swift:

class LocalNotificationTests: XCTestCase {

    let notification1 = LocalNotification(toTriggerInSeconds: 5)
    let notification2 = LocalNotification(toTriggerInSeconds: 6)

    // This object manages LocalNotifications 
    // by building them into UNUserNotifications
    // and then scheduling them using UNUserNotificationCenter.
    let notificationManager = NotificationManager()

    func testSuccessfulNotificationDelivery() {

        // setup locale and use it for testing, somehow
        let 🇨🇦 = Locale(identifier: "en_CA")

        // The answer to my question would go here. 
        // (Inject Locale into the test, somehow?)

        notificationManager.schedule(notifications: [notification1, notification2], 
                                     withRegionCode: 🇨🇦.regionCode)

        let expectation = self.expectation(description: "notification delivery")

        var deliveredNotifications: [UNNotification]?

        UNUserNotificationCenter.current().getDeliveredNotifications {
            deliveredNotifications = $0
            expectation.fulfill()
        }

        waitForExpectations(timeout: 10, handler: nil)

        XCTAssertEqual(deliveredNotifications?.count, 2) 
    }
}

Assume default setup() and tearDown().

Answer 1

If you edit your scheme and select Test/Options, you can set the Application Region:
Would it be enough to have different schemes for manual testing?

Also, if you create a bot, you can set the build configuration so that it selects a certain Region: If you define different bots, you could run the tests automatically.

Answer 2

class LocalNotificationTests: XCTestCase {

let notification1 = LocalNotification(toTriggerInSeconds: 5)
let notification2 = LocalNotification(toTriggerInSeconds: 6)

// This object manages LocalNotifications 
// by building them into UNUserNotifications
// and then scheduling them using UNUserNotificationCenter.
let notificationManager = NotificationManager()

func testSuccessfulCanadaNotificationDelivery() {
    let canadaLocale = Locale("en_CA")
    XCTAssertTrue(notificationDelivered(with: canadaLocale))
}

func testNotificationDeliveryFailure() {
    let notCanadaOrUs = Locale("ru_RU")
    XCTAssertFalse(notificationDelivered(with: notCanadaOrUs))
}


private func notificationDelivered(with locale: Locale) -> Bool {

    // The answer to my question would go here. 
    // (Inject Locale into the test, somehow?)

    notificationManager.schedule(notifications: [notification1, notification2], 
                                 withRegionCode: locale.regionCode)

    let expectation = self.expectation(description: "notification delivery")

    var deliveredNotifications: [UNNotification]?

    UNUserNotificationCenter.current().getDeliveredNotifications {
        deliveredNotifications = $0
        expectation.fulfill()
    }

    waitForExpectations(timeout: 10, handler: nil)

    return (deliveredNotifications?.count ?? 0) == 2
}

Can you do something like this?