Can you explain the use cases we can cover by leveraging this?
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#12This is neat! Can you elaborate on “boots the app on a simulator or macOS, runs UI automation to verify behavior” Does this handle screen captures similar to Playwright for web? I built an app with Codex recently (to control codex/cc remotely, funnily enough) and without any skills/plugins, it was booting the simulator and running tests to verify something(?) It seemed mostly to ensure that the app didn’t crash in ce…
Not the author but it likely means running automated UI tests in the sim, yes. This involves running the app and programmatically selecting and sending interaction events. Your previous experience was probably the agent running regular unit tests, which obviously don’t need ui environment, but mostly *do* need an iOS runtime, which is why it needs to boot the simulator. An idiosyncrasy of the way unit tests are execu…
Thanks! It's been over a decade since I've used Xcode/launched a native iOS app, so I wasn't sure what the capabilities were.
Looks like built-in UI testing was launched at WWDC 2015, so I missed it by a year!
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#13I can envision a future where every person will have their own personal App Store. They just ask their AI for a app they are dreaming about and in a matter of minutes, it will be ready. They can then share with friends and family. I wish Apple does something to help facilitate this instead of hacking stuff around....
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