Running xctool run-tests without building tests on machine

Question

I would like to run my tests using xctool without having to build the tests on the machine prior. Basically, I want to build the tests on one machine, transfer them to several other machines and run them in parallel from there.

So I need to know what files the command xctool run-tests requires in order to run the tests, so I can transfer those files to each computer in order to parallelize my runs.

Answer 1

You probably want the file produced by xctool build-tests, which builds the tests but does not run them.

The last file output by xctool on the command-line is the path the final .xctest – or at least it is for me. Either way, that's what you need.

https://github.com/facebook/xctool#building-tests

If you just want to execute that test bundle, you can do something like this:

xcrun -sdk iphonesimulator simctl spawn booted $(xcrun --show-sdk-platform-path -sdk iphonesimulator)/Developer/Library/Xcode/Agents/xctest /path/to/tests.xctest