How can I add Fakery to UITesting?

[touchdiamond58]

I want to populate fields with fake data, how can I add it to my UITests!?

[vadymmarkov]

@touchdiamond58 One way of doing this would be to pass launch arguments and then populate fields with fake data directly in your app. This is a simplified example:

// In UI tests
override func setUp() {
  super.setUp()
  continueAfterFailure = false
  app = XCUIApplication()
  app.launchArguments.append("--UITests")
}

// In your app target
if CommandLine.arguments.contains("--UITests") {
  // Use fake data
} else {
  // Use actual data
}

It would be easier to achieve that by using some kind of abstractions, such as data providers, mock services, etc.

Hope it answers your question.