Common Controls

Learn how to use BELLATRIX common iOS controls.

Example

[TestMethod]
public void CommonActionsWithIOSControls()
{
    var button = App.ElementCreateService.CreateByName<Button>("ComputeSumButton");

    button.Click();

    var seekBar = App.ElementCreateService.CreateByName<SeekBar>("AppElem");

    seekBar.Set(9);

    seekBar.ToExists().WaitToBe();

    var answerLabel = App.ElementCreateService.CreateByName<Label>("Answer");

    Assert.IsTrue(answerLabel.IsPresent);

    var password = App.ElementCreateService.CreateById<Password>("IntegerB");

    password.SetPassword("9");

    var textField = App.ElementCreateService.CreateById<TextField>("IntegerA");

    textField.SetText("1");

    Assert.AreEqual("1", textField.GetText());

    var checkBox = App.ElementCreateService.CreateByIOSNsPredicate<CheckBox>("type == \"XCUIElementTypeSwitch\" AND name == \"All-day\"");

    checkBox.Check();

    Assert.IsTrue(checkBox.IsChecked);

    checkBox.Uncheck();

    Assert.IsFalse(checkBox.IsChecked);

    var radioButton = App.ElementCreateService.CreateByIOSNsPredicate<RadioButton>("type == \"XCUIElementTypeSwitch\" AND name == \"All-day\"");

    Assert.IsFalse(radioButton.IsChecked);

    radioButton.Click();

    Assert.IsTrue(radioButton.IsChecked);
}

Explanations

As mentioned before BELLATRIX exposes 15+ iOS controls. All of them implement Proxy design pattern which means that they are not located immediately when they are created. Another benefit is that each of them includes only the actions that you should be able to do with the specific control and nothing more. For example, you cannot type into a button. Moreover, this way all of the actions has meaningful names- Type not SendKeys as in vanilla WebDriver.

var button = App.ElementCreateService.CreateByName<Button>("ComputeSumButton");

Create methods accept a generic parameter the type of the iOS control. Then only the methods for this specific control are accessible. Here we tell BELLATRIX to find your element by name equals the value ‘button’.

button.Click();

Clicking the button. At this moment BELLATRIX locates the element.

var seekBar = App.ElementCreateService.CreateByName<SeekBar>("AppElem");
seekBar.Set(9);

Moves the seekbar.

seekBar.ToExists().WaitToBe();

Wait for the element to exists.

var answerLabel = App.ElementCreateService.CreateByName<Label>("Answer");
Assert.IsTrue(answerLabel.IsPresent);

See if the element is present or not using the IsPresent property.

var password = App.ElementCreateService.CreateById<Password>("IntegerB");
password.SetPassword("9");

Instead of using the non-meaningful method SendKeys, BELLATRIX gives you more readable tests through proper methods and properties names. In this case, we set the text in the password field using the SetPassword method and SetText for regular text fields.

var checkBox = App.ElementCreateService.CreateByIOSNsPredicate<CheckBox>("type == \"XCUIElementTypeSwitch\" AND name == \"All-day\"");
checkBox.Check();
checkBox.Uncheck();

Checking and unchecking the checkbox with IOSNsPredicate = ‘type == "XCUIElementTypeSwitch" AND name == "All-day"‘.

Assert.IsTrue(checkBox.IsChecked);

Asserting whether the check was successful.

var radioButton = App.ElementCreateService.CreateByIOSNsPredicate<RadioButton>("type == \"XCUIElementTypeSwitch\" AND name == \"All-day\"");
radioButton.Click();

Select the radio button.

Assert.IsTrue(radioButton.IsChecked);

Most IOS controls have properties such as checking whether the radio button is enabled or not.

Full List of All Supported iOS Controls

Element

By
GetAttribute
ScrollToVisible
Create
CreateAll
WaitToBe
IsPresent
IsVisible
ElementName
PageName
Location
Size

Note: All other controls have access to the above methods and properties