[TIMOB-26973] iOS: Add accessibilityIdentifier

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	New Feature
Priority	Critical
Status	Closed
Resolution	Fixed
Resolution Date	2019-05-22T23:11:08.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	Release 8.1.0
Components	iOS
Labels	accessibility, ios, testing
Reporter	Sergey Volkov
Assignee	Vijay Singh
Created	2019-04-02T12:39:46.000+0000
Updated	2019-07-24T02:27:42.000+0000

Description

In UI testing one way of selecting element is by "Accessibility ID", e.g. in Appium: http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/element/find-elements/index.html#selector-strategies {quote} *Strategy* Accessibility ID *Description* Read a unique identifier for a UI element. For XCUITest it is the element's _+accessibility-id+_ attribute. For Android it is the element's _+content-desc+_ attribute. {quote} In Titanium SDK "content description" for Android views [composed from three other properties](https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/blob/8_0_X/android/titanium/src/java/org/appcelerator/titanium/view/TiUIView.java#L2177): * accessibilityLabel * accessibilityValue * accessibilityHint On iOS property ["accessibilityIdentifier"](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiaccessibilityidentification/1623132-accessibilityidentifier?language=objc) is not used by Ti SDK. I suggest to compose "accessibilityIdentifier" value on iOS same way it is done on Android for "content description".

Attachments

File	Date	Size
0001-feat-ios-compose-accessibility-identifier.patch	2019-04-02T12:37:57.000+0000	4759

Comments

Sergey Volkov 2019-04-02

Add related to testing issues.
Sergey Volkov 2019-04-22

https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/pull/10864
Keerthi Mahalingam 2019-05-16

FR Passed. waiting on Jenkins to merge
Keerthi Mahalingam 2019-05-16

PR merged.

Keerthi Mahalingam 2019-05-22

Verified the fix on sdk 8.1.0.v20190522031408.Works as expected.

Test Environment:
   Name                        = Mac OS X
     Version                     = 10.13.6
     Architecture                = 64bit
   Node.js
     Node.js Version             = 8.9.1
     npm Version                 = 5.5.1
   Titanium CLI
     CLI Version                 = 5.1.1
   Titanium SDK
     SDK Version                 = 8.1.0.v20190522031408
   Cli =7.0.11
   Device =iPhone 6s iOS 12

Ygor Lemos 2019-07-24

Any chance of getting this back-ported to 7.5.X? We haven't moved all our apps to 8.X yet and we are implementing Appium which works flawlessly with accessibility ids instead of XPath which is very prone to errors...

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