I'm writing some unit tests and, because of the nature of this particular app, it's important that I get as high up the UI
chain as possible. So, what I'd like to do is programmatically trigger a button-press, as if the user had pressed the button in the GUI
.
(Yes, yes — I could just call the IBAction
selector but, again, the nature of this particular app makes it important that I fake the actual button press, such that the IBAction
be called from the button, itself.)
What's the preferred method of doing this?
Best Answer
It turns out that
got me exactly what I needed, in this case.
EDIT: Don't forget to do this in the main thread, to get results similar to a user-press.
For Swift 3: