Feature request: improved support for native Xcode 8 tests, now that xctool won't be actively supported for it

[benasher44]

More info on xctool support for Xcode 8: facebookarchive/xctool#704.

tl;dr it seems to be that it won't be actively maintained outside of those in the community that still want to support it (although with enough community support, maybe this qualifies as active maintenance). My take is that this is probably because xcodebuild has improved a lot in Xcode 8 in terms of being a feature-full test runner:

• Can specifically include/exclude tests that you want xcodebuild to run
• 2 new build actions: build-for-testing and test-without-building (good for allowing one machine to build, while other machines just get the test build artifacts and run tests with them)

Specific things that would be nice to see supported:

• Specifying the xcode_project, xcode_workspace, and xcode_scheme configuration keys uses xcodebuild to run tests instead of xctool on Xcode 8 machines
• New configuration keys in .travis.yml for specifying the arguments to pass to the test runner to include or exclude specific tests (new in Xcode 8)

From the Travis infra side of things, it seems like the new build-for-testing and test-without-building actions would be pretty exciting because it could mean reduced time spent rebuilding the same test files when the goal is just to parallelize tests across multiple machines. The combination of new configuration keys to specify which tests to run + the Travis build matrix feature could make this intent easy to communicate in the .travis.yml.

[LavrL]

@benasher44 Do you have any updates how to run xctool for xcode 8?

[benasher44]

I just don't run it for Xcode 8. I use xcodebuild

[LavrL]

I use xctool 0.2.8 and OClint -0.10.1-x86-64-darwin-15.0.0. When I started to analyze code for xcode 8, it starts to fail.

How I do it :

I copy run-sonar.sh and sonar-project.properties in workspace of project and run run-sonar.sh.

Before some days it worked perfectly.

Is it any other way to make it work?

[benasher44]

I'm not sure. I recommend asking in the xctool project.

[tamastimar]

If xcodebuild will be the default command please consider xcpretty also.

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