Accessibility Inspector for iOS

lostinhogwarts 2016-03-03 21:35:13 UTC #1

I've been working with appium for over 6 months now to test native apps on iOS. I'd like you guys' suggestion on how stable the "Accessibility Label" is for iOS. Around December/January, Appium logs threw a warning message "warn: [DEPRECATED] The "name" Locator Strategy has been deprecated and will be removed.". But I don't see that message anymore now. Do you suggest I continue with By.name or switch to using any other find method?

wreed 2016-03-03 23:16:32 UTC #2

I find that using an accessibility label is by far the best way to identify elements. It takes some buy in from Dev but it's really worth it.

For the 'name' locator strategy, you should be ok until you decide to upgrade to Appium 1.5:

aamorozov 2017-05-09 17:13:56 UTC #3

What is the syntax for this type of locator method ? FindbyAccessibilityLabel?

wreed 2017-05-09 18:35:10 UTC #4

Really it is dependent on the programming language you've chosen to use. OP is using 'By.<method>', which I believe is Ruby.

aamorozov 2017-05-09 18:53:17 UTC #5

I'll be using Java or NodeJS in the upcoming react native app and trying to figure out the best approach for both platforms

wreed 2017-05-09 19:40:31 UTC #6

For Java you can use 'findElements(String by, string Using)' or some variation:

I'm not sure how that's done in NodeJS though.

aamorozov 2017-05-09 21:56:06 UTC #7

Java will work just fine, thank you!