XCUITests — Interact with Settings Application

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Using XCUITests, you can interact with any of the System/Installed applications. For example, if you want to collect the device information, now this is possible using XCUITests.

First, we need to launch the Settings application just like a normal app and provide its bundle identifier.

In the General -> About section, we can see all the information about the device. If you want to use any of the device information then you can collect it using XCUITests.

Here, I will show you how can you get Serial Number of your device.

First, please create the following class in your project.

public class Settings {
     private var app: XCUIApplication?
     public func launch() -> Settings {
          self.app = XCUIApplication(bundleIdentifier:Application.settings.bundleId)
          self.app?.launch()
          return self
     }
     public func navigateTo(option: String) -> Settings {
          self.app?.descendants(matching: .staticText)[option].tap()
          return self
     }
public func value(option: String) -> Any? {
          return self.app?.descendants(matching: .cell)[option].value
     }
}

Here is the code that you have to add in your XCUITest script from where you want to get the value.

Settings()
   .launch()
   .navigateTo(option: "General")
   .navigateTo(option: "About")
   .value(option: "Serial Number")

This is just one example to interact with the Settings Application. You can also do interaction with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Location services very easily.

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