Open Source Apple iPhone User Interface (UI) Apps

A library for isolated developing UI components and automatically taking snapshots of them. Playbook is a library that provides a sandbox for building UI components without having to worry about application-specific dependencies, strongly inspired by Storybook for JavaScript in web-frontend development. Components built by using Playbook can generate a standalone app as living style guide. This allows you to not only review UI quickly but also deliver more robust designs by separating business logics out of components. Besides, snapshots of each component can be automatically generated by unit tests, and visual regression testing can be performed using arbitrary third-party tools. For complex modern app development, it’s important to catch UI changes more sensitively and keep improving them faster. With the Playbook, you don't have to struggle through preparing the data and spend human resources for manual testings.

Bluepill is a tool to run iOS tests in parallel using multiple simulators. The exit code of Bluepill uses bit indicators that could represent multiple exit statuses. If you're using Fastlane to run your tests, you're in luck! You can integrate Bluepill into your project with very little change to your existing setup. Just integrate one of the following Fastlane plugins, and you'll be on your way. Bluepill is a reliable iOS testing tool that runs UI tests using multiple simulators on a single machine.

EarlGrey is a native iOS UI automation test framework that enables you to write clear, concise tests. With the EarlGrey framework, you have access to enhanced synchronization features. EarlGrey automatically synchronizes with the UI, network requests, and various queues; but still allows you to manually implement customized timings, if needed. EarlGrey’s synchronization features help to ensure that the UI is in a steady state before actions are performed. This greatly increases test stability and makes tests highly repeatable. EarlGrey works in conjunction with the XCTest framework and integrates with Xcode’s Test Navigator so you can run tests directly from Xcode or the command line (using xcodebuild). To prioritize and improve EarlGrey, the framework collects usage data and uploads it to Google Analytics. More specifically, the framework collects the MD5 hash of Bundle ID, Test Class Names and Test Method Names.

There are a few visual regression tools for the web, but most either cannot be run headless or use phantomjs which is deprecated and a browser nobody is actually using. They usually also require you to maintain fixtures. With react-native it's now possible to target multiple platforms with a single code base, but there's no single tool to test all to my knowledge. Loki aims to have easy setup, no to low maintenance cost, reproducible tests independent of which OS they are run on, runnable on CI, and support all platforms storybook does.