XCUITest without delay

[BB]

Hi,

Is there a way to override the annoying delay (something like the old instruments-without-delay)?

Thanks.

[ansonliao]

also facing this problem, now iOS test is very very slow in real device, iOS 10.

[Aleksei]

XCUITest is slower than was before with IWD. Our experience is XCUITest is same speed and Android now (with same set of test).

[Telmo_Cardoso]

@BB @ansonliao Found anything?

[igal_epshtein]

How did you achiev same speed for Android and XCUITest ?

[Aleksei]

@igal_epshtein just use mostly ids or predicates. And we use simulator but not real iOS device.

[igal_epshtein]

@Aleksei , thanks for the answer

What do you mean by “predicates” ?

My team is using ID mostly , and sometimes xpat , since we have moved to XCUItest framework , we are suffering from slow execution time (takes ages for the same test set which was running very fast on top of UIautomation + IWD)

[Aleksei]

@igal_epshtein predicates - https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios_predicate.md

but in 90% we use IDs and we do not have much slowness. Do you use REAL device?

[BB]

@Aleksei
Nope. We use simulators, why?
Do simulators work slower with XCUITest?

[Aleksei]

@BB with real device Apple has 1 sec delay for automation commands which cause tests run slower on REAL device up to 3-5 times per our estimation.

[BB]

@Aleksei
Got it, thanks.
And do you suffer any slowness with iOS simulator?

[Aleksei]

@BB just a little bit when comparing to OLD IWD.