Xcode UI test - UI Testing Failure - Failed to scroll to visible (by AX action) when tap on Search field "Cancel' button

Question

I am trying to dismiss the search field by tapping 'Cancel' button in search bar.

The test case is failing to find the cancel button. It was working fine in Xcode 7.0.1

I have added predicate to wait for button to appear. The test case is failing when we tap of "cancel" button

let button = app.buttons[“Cancel”]
let existsPredicate = NSPredicate(format: "exists == 1")

expectationForPredicate(existsPredicate, evaluatedWithObject: button, handler: nil)
waitForExpectationsWithTimeout(5, handler: nil)

button.tap() // Failing here

logs:

    t =     7.21s     Tap SearchField
t =     7.21s         Wait for app to idle
t =     7.29s         Find the SearchField
t =     7.29s             Snapshot accessibility hierarchy for com.test.mail
t =     7.49s             Find: Descendants matching type SearchField
t =     7.49s             Find: Element at index 0
t =     7.49s             Wait for app to idle
t =     7.55s         Synthesize event
t =     7.84s         Wait for app to idle
t =     8.97s     Type '[email protected]' into
t =     8.97s         Wait for app to idle
t =     9.03s         Find the "Search" SearchField
t =     9.03s             Snapshot accessibility hierarchy for com.test.mail
t =     9.35s             Find: Descendants matching type SearchField
t =     9.35s             Find: Element at index 0
t =     9.36s             Wait for app to idle
t =     9.42s         Synthesize event
t =    10.37s         Wait for app to idle
t =    10.44s     Check predicate `exists == 1` against object `"Cancel" Button`
t =    10.44s         Snapshot accessibility hierarchy for com.test.mail
t =    10.58s         Find: Descendants matching type Button
t =    10.58s         Find: Elements matching predicate '"Cancel" IN identifiers'
t =    10.58s     Tap "Cancel" Button
t =    10.58s         Wait for app to idle
t =    10.64s         Find the "Cancel" Button
t =    10.64s             Snapshot accessibility hierarchy for com.test.mail
t =    10.78s             Find: Descendants matching type Button
t =    10.78s             Find: Elements matching predicate '"Cancel" IN identifiers'
t =    10.79s             Wait for app to idle
t =    11.08s         Synthesize event
t =    11.13s             Scroll element to visible
t =    11.14s             Assertion Failure: UI Testing Failure - Failed to scroll to visible (by AX action) Button 0x7f7fcaebde40: traits: 8589934593, {{353.0, 26.0}, {53.0, 30.0}}, label: 'Cancel', error: Error -25204 performing AXAction 2003

Answer 1

I guess here "Cancel" button returns false for hittable property, that is preventing it from tapping.

If you see tap() in documentation it says

/*!
 * Sends a tap event to a hittable point computed for the element.
 */
- (void)tap;

It seems things are broken with XCode 7.1.To keep myself (and u too ;)) unblocked from these issues I wrote a extension on XCUIElement that allows tap on element even if it is not hittable. Following can help you.

/*Sends a tap event to a hittable/unhittable element.*/
extension XCUIElement {
    func forceTapElement() {
        if self.hittable {
            self.tap()
        }
        else {
            let coordinate: XCUICoordinate = self.coordinateWithNormalizedOffset(CGVectorMake(0.0, 0.0))
            coordinate.tap()
        }
    }
}

Now you can call as

button.forceTapElement()

Update - For swift 3 use following:

extension XCUIElement {
    func forceTapElement() {
        if self.isHittable {
            self.tap()
        }
        else {
            let coordinate: XCUICoordinate = self.coordinate(withNormalizedOffset: CGVector(dx:0.0, dy:0.0))
            coordinate.tap()
        }
    }
}