Swift UITesting error: Invalid escape sequence in literal. \U201c

Question

I am building an automation suite using Xcode 7 with swift.

My app loads with the following Alert View:

Allow \"Light Alarm\" to access your location while

Answer 1

This seems to be a bug in Xcode when generating code during UI recording. Swift uses \u{NNNN} escape sequences in string literals, so

app.alerts["Allow \u{201c}Light Alarm\u{201c} ..."]

would be correct, or simply

app.alerts["Allow “Light Alarm“ ..."]

(Actually it should be "Allow “Light Alarm” ..." where the second quotation mark is U+201D = RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK :)

A similar issue for UI recorded code in Objective-C was reported in Incomplete universal character name in UI Testing.

I do not know a workaround, it seems that the only thing you can do at present is to fix the code after recording (and sent a bug report to Apple).

Answer 2

Installing Xcode 7.3 fixed this issue for me