As of Xcode 7.1 Beta 3, UI Testing does not currently support validating the visibility of an element. I suggest filing a radar to bring the necessary attention to Apple. Xcode 7.1 has fixed this issue. hittable now checks to see if the element is correct.
It is now possible with Xcode 8 using the -only-testing parameter with xcodebuild: xcodebuild test -workspace <path> -scheme <name> -destination <specifier> -only-testing:TestBundle/TestSuite/TestCase
Xcode 7.1 Xcode 7.1 has finally fixed the issue with system alerts. There are, however, two small gotchas. First, you need to set up a “UI Interuption Handler” before presenting the alert. This is our way of telling the framework how to handle an alert when it appears. Second, after presenting the alert you must … Read more
You can add a “Run Script” phase to build phases in your test target to uninstall the app before running unit tests against it, unfortunately this is not between test cases, though. /usr/bin/xcrun simctl uninstall booted com.mycompany.bundleId Update Between tests, you can delete the app via the Springboard in the tearDown phase. Although, this does … Read more