Disabling waiting for idle state in UI testing of iOS apps

Question

Basically the problem is the same as this one: XCTestCase: Wait for app to idle

I am using perpetually repeating \"background animations\" in my views. The !@#$#$&@

Answer 1

I was using gh123man's solution in setUp() of a couple of test classes and it worked like a charm until updating to iOS 13.3. Since then app gets stuck in launching state.

Found that it still works if I move it to methods like disableWaitForIdle() and enableWaitForIdle() and call them only in the most granular manner (before and after the tap where I know the app will never become idle), e.g. like this:

@discardableResult func selectOption() -> Self {
    disableWaitForIdle()
    app.cells["Option"].firstMatch.waitAndForceTap(timeout: 20)
    enableWaitForIdle()
    return self
}