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nginoza's avatar
nginoza
Frequent Contributor
11 years ago

Ability to instrument iOS ipa files with TC IDE and through scripting in 10.50

Hi All,

 

Just tried the instrumenting of the ipa file through Test Complete rather than incorporating the static library through xCode.

 

This is such a huge thing!. We no longer have to have our DEVs maintain 2 separate builds, one for testing and one for TC. It was a big headache and took valuable resources away from our DEVs. It was not a trivial task, especially for the signing for a Developer profile so we could launch our app through scripts after a new build.

 

We are now able to instrument builds using just the Test build, this means that we are on the current features and fixes as manual testing, and do not have to refactor so much based on different versions of the builds.

 

This also means that if there is a patch to the static iOS library, we do not have request a new build from DEVs which that had to "checkin" and do another iteration of the build process.

 

This is such a time saver and the best tool out there hands down.

 

I big shout out for development, support and the documentation group for excellent work. Docs are really go all I had to do was to read and follow it. And code samples that work.


  • Thank you, Nathan. That's always awesome to hear nice words about our team achievement :)


     


    Frankly speaking, you help us a lot by working with our Support and R&D team to improve the iOS testing in TestComplete. Your feedback is always of value to us. Thanks so much!


     


    For the community, in TestComplete 10.5 you can easily instrument your iOS application via the TestComplete UI. After adding the app to the TestedApp objects, TestComplete will recognize all objects inside the app. Please refer to the "Instrumenting iOS Applications in TestComplete UI" article for details.


     

  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
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    @ Nathan:

    Thank you a lot for the update. Considering your experience and forum's activities for the iOS testing, it is really useful to hear your opinion about this functionality.



    @Tanya:

    Is it possible to enhance the forum's functionality so that it is possible to vote for the first topic of a thread? Nathan's one is a perfect example when I would like to vote for it, but cannot do this.

  • Unfortunately, currently, it's impossible to vote for the first post, Alexei.


    Our forums will be updated very soon. You will have a lot of new feature,s as well as giving/getting more votes for more activities. Stay tuned :)