Is it possible to use cucumber+marathon+iOS combination

[Aleksejevs]

Hello!
Now we are using Cucumberish for our iOS UI tests, tests written on swift using XCUITest framework.
Is it possibly to implement marathon runner to this combination?

[Malinskiy]

Hi @Aleksejevs

Everything is possible, but it depends how much effort it is to implement such support. I’m not very familiar with Cucumberish, could you point me to an example of application + tests written with it for iOS?

[Aleksejevs]

@Malinskiy Hi and thanks for reply.

Can't share actually real project. Here is similar example: https://github.com/jerseysu/xcuitest_cucumberish.
We using one feature file for both platforms iOS and Android. For Android marathon works perfectly (btw thanks for that).
And now we planning to implement marathon also for iOS repository, but I didn't find any solutions for that.
In out project we are using:
Cucumberish framework to run our test cases. (https://github.com/Ahmed-Ali/Cucumberish)
In iOS repository we store step definitions bindings (swift + XCUITests)
Do you have example where used XCUItest + Cucumber feature files + marathon? (We don't need Cucumberish if it's not needed for this solution)

[Aleksejevs]

@Malinskiy Trying to run marathon in our iOS project and receiving error with NullPointerException. Could you please help how to debug it properly or alleged problem?

D 15:49:20.827 [main @coroutine#1] <IOSDeviceProvider> Initializing IOSDeviceProvider
I 15:49:20.877 [IOSDeviceProvider @coroutine#1] <LocalListSimulatorProvider> starts providing 1 simulator devices
I 15:49:21.977 [IOSDeviceProvider @coroutine#2] <n.s.sshj.transport.random.JCERandom> Creating new SecureRandom.
D 15:49:21.979 [IOSDeviceProvider @coroutine#2] <n.s.sshj.transport.random.JCERandom> Random creation took 1 ms
**E 15:49:25.668 [main @coroutine#1] <com.malinskiy.marathon.Marathon> java.lang.NullPointerException: null cannot be cast to non-null type kotlin.Array<kotlin.Any>**
I 15:49:25.670 [main] <c.m.m.e.BugsnagExceptionsReporter> Finish BugSnag
D 15:49:25.670 [main] <com.bugsnag.Bugsnag> Closing connection to Bugsnag
marathon v0.7.6: Test run failed
D 15:49:25.672 [Thread-2] <com.bugsnag.Bugsnag> Closing connection to Bugsnag

[Aleksejevs]

@Malinskiy any advices?

[Aleksejevs]

@Malinskiy
Here is repository: https://github.com/Ahmed-Ali/Cucumberish/tree/master/CucumberishLibraryTest.
100% same approach that we are using.
No idea how to connect cucumberish and marathon, because marathon analyses swift code or uses xtestrun file for test case list, but they in "runtime discovered tests" format. Is it even possible to run those TC's (written in Gherkin format) via marathon?
We really want to use marathon in our project for iOS, beaches android implementation saved a looot of time for us.

[Malinskiy]

The only way to discover runtime tests is to execute the tests without real execution like the -e log true option for am instrument. I'll check the repository sample you provided this week when I'm less busy at work.

[Aleksejevs]

@Malinskiy
Thanks a lot! We look forward to your reply

[Aleksejevs]

@Malinskiy
Didn't find any solution to execute the tests without real execution without real execution :(

[Aleksejevs]

@Malinskiy Have you managed to check the example repo?