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Xcode – Execute shell script before UI Test for iOS app starts

I have UI test (for an iOS app) that opens iOS photo gallery and taps on specific image.
I want to have custom script that will copy this image to simulator’s photo gallery at the beginning of the test of even right before it will start.

I have sh script that works when I manually run it after simulator is launched, but I want it to be executed during test run on Xcode Cloud.

This is script code

#!/bin/bash

# Get the UDID of the simulator (adjust for your target simulator)
SIMULATOR_UDID=$(xcrun simctl list devices | grep "Booted" | awk -F '[()]' '{print $2}')

# Path to the image
IMAGE_PATH="./myImage.jpg"

# Add the image to the simulator gallery
xcrun simctl addmedia $SIMULATOR_UDID $IMAGE_PATH

I already tried to add it to pre-test actions for Test Scheme and to Build Phases of UI test target – no luck, I even wasn’t able to find logs related to this script execution.

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  1. 0

    Here is detailed answer on the matter of scripts for Xcode Cloud. And this is related apple documentation page. Please, let me know if it helped.

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  2. 0

    Try this script code:

    #!/bin/bash

# Ensure the script logs output for debugging
set -x

# Path to the image (adjust if necessary)
IMAGE_PATH="$SRCROOT/myImage.jpg"

# Get the UDID from environment variable
SIMULATOR_UDID="$TARGET_DEVICE_IDENTIFIER"

# Wait until the simulator is booted
boot_status=$(xcrun simctl bootstatus "$SIMULATOR_UDID" -b)
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "Simulator failed to boot"
  exit 1
fi

# Add the image to the simulator gallery
xcrun simctl addmedia "$SIMULATOR_UDID" "$IMAGE_PATH"
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