I’ve recently spent a few hours investigating how feasible it would be to use Apple’s private UIAutomation framework to simulate user interactions in iOS apps. The motivation for this is of course being able to use this for Frank, the UI testing tool I maintain. This post will summarize my progress to date. You can also check out my work-in-progress uiautomation branch for Frank. Note that that branch is very rough and ready at the moment. I pushed it up to my github repo just so anyone w...