Unable to return to application once another application is activated

[rfodge]

Hi Again :),

So I posted this question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60120863/xctest-activate-not-working-when-ran-from-command-line

As I originally didn't think it was related to the tunnel, however when i went back to the branch using the tunnel version 3.x version of the tunnel the code worked fine. But when we are on the branch with the latest version of the tunnel, it does not.

Our application launches the Maps application and in the XCTest we do

let maps = XCUIApplication(bundleIdentifier: "com.apple.Maps")
let alert = maps.alerts.element(boundBy: 0)

However any time we did maps.anything() it would stay on the Maps application and not "return" to the application / end test until about 5 mins went by. And when I tried calling myapp.activate() after the Maps interaction it would not return to our application. It just stays on the Maps application.

Interestingly enough though, this only is an issue when running the tests thru the command line and not when the test via XCode.

In order to get around it for now, I did:

BaseTest.sbtApp?.terminate()
let maps = XCUIApplication(bundleIdentifier: "com.apple.Maps")
let alert = maps.alerts.element(boundBy: 0)

And here, I just relaunch the app and start the test workflow over.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

[tcamin]

what is BaseTest.sbtApp? Can't you use the app property that the library adds to XCTestCases instead?

[rfodge]

Oh its just the instance of SBTUITunneledApplication but yes as far as terminating the app, same thing. That piece works.