The bundle UITests couldn’t be loaded because it is damaged or missing necessary resources. Try reinstalling the bundle

Question

I can't run my test case due to this following errors :

• The bundle “UITests” couldn’t be loaded because it is damaged or missing necessary resources. Try reinstalling the bundle.
• Library not loaded: @rpath/Alamofire.framework/Alamofire.
• Reason: image not found

Try searching and solving since two days but couldn't get through this issue can someone please help.

Answer 1

I was able to reproduce this issue with the project generated by Xcode 10.1. I used Swift 4.2 and CocoaPods as a dependency manager. I had the following Podfile:

# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
platform :ios, '10.0'

target 'MyApp' do
  # Comment the next line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  use_frameworks!

  # Pods for MyApp
  pod 'Alamofire', '4.8.1'

  target 'MyAppTests' do
    inherit! :search_paths
    # Pods for testing
  end

  target 'MyAppUITests' do
    inherit! :search_paths
    # Pods for testing
  end

end

Then I removed use_frameworks!, see this link for more details:

# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
platform :ios, '10.0'

target 'MyApp' do

  # Pods for MyApp
  pod 'Alamofire', '4.8.1'    

  target 'MyAppTests' do
    inherit! :search_paths
    # Pods for testing
  end

  target 'MyAppUITests' do
    inherit! :search_paths
    # Pods for testing
  end

end

I also received some warnings like this:

[!] The `MyAppUITests [Debug]` target overrides the `ALWAYS_EMBED_SWIFT_STANDARD_LIBRARIES` build setting defined in `Pods/Target Support Files/Pods-MyApp-MyAppUITests/Pods-MyApp-MyAppUITests.debug.xcconfig'. This can lead to problems with the CocoaPods installation
    - Use the `$(inherited)` flag, or
    - Remove the build settings from the target.

That's why I removed this line from the MyAppUITests build settings:

After that run pod deintegrate && pod install and then the problem disappeared. Probably for projects with more dependencies (like here) you need to use another solution.

Answer 2

It's because your pods only apply to your Framework target and no the tests one. Add the tests target to your podfile.

Example :

target 'MyFramework' do
  use_frameworks!
  pod 'Alamofire', '~> 4.5'
end

target 'MyFrameworkTests' do
  use_frameworks!
  pod 'Alamofire', '~> 4.5'
end

Answer 3

Check that the deployment target in your UITest target Build Settings is set to the same as the host application you are trying to test. In my case, I added the UITesting target later on, and it created it with a default of deployment target iOS 12. If you then try to run the UITest on iOS lower than 12, it gave me the error mentioned in the question.

Answer 4

In my case, I needed to separate the UI tests target with use_frameworks!.

Moving the UI tests target from nested structure to its own will not help, if you specified use_frameworks! globally somewhere in the top of the Podfile.

The Podfile with error (original):

platform :ios, '10.0'

inhibit_all_warnings!
use_frameworks!

target 'MyProject' do
  pod 'R.swift', '~> 5.0'
  pod 'Moya/RxSwift', '~> 12.0'
  # and other pods

  target 'MyProjectTests' do
    inherit! :search_paths

    pod 'iOSSnapshotTestCase', '~> 6.0'
  end

  target 'MyProjectUITests' do
    inherit! :search_paths
  end
end

The Podfile with error (first try to fix):

platform :ios, '10.0'

inhibit_all_warnings!
use_frameworks!

def shared_pods
  pod 'R.swift', '~> 5.0'
end

target 'MyProject' do
  shared_pods

  pod 'Moya/RxSwift', '~> 12.0'
  # and other pods

  target 'MyProjectTests' do
    inherit! :search_paths

    pod 'iOSSnapshotTestCase', '~> 6.0'
  end
end

target 'MyProjectUITests' do
  shared_pods
end

The final working Podfile:

platform :ios, '10.0'

inhibit_all_warnings!

def shared_pods
  pod 'R.swift', '~> 5.0'
end

target 'MyProject' do
  use_frameworks!

  shared_pods

  pod 'Moya/RxSwift', '~> 12.0'
  # and other pods

  target 'MyProjectTests' do
    inherit! :search_paths

    pod 'iOSSnapshotTestCase', '~> 6.0'
  end
end

target 'MyProjectUITests' do
  shared_pods
end

Answer 5

I had to add the location of my frameworks to Runpath search Path under targets>mytestTarget>Build Settings>Runpath Search Path

Answer 6

Switching to legacy build system fixed thi issue with Xcode 10.

Answer 7

I was able to fix this issue by following Roman Podymov answer then running pod deintegrate then pod install

Answer 8

What solved my problem was following the following steps: 1) delete the UITests target from the pod file. Initially, I had the following in the pod file:

target 'XUITests' do
    inherit! :search_paths   
end

2) Deintegrate the pods (with pod deintegrate)

3) Install the pods (with pod install)

4) Clean your project and run the project or your UITest

Answer 9

This error happened to me when I added a framework to the project (that's a framework itself, too), and tried to run the tests. I made it optional instead of required, and the tests succeeded.

Answer 10

In your tests target change inherit! :search_paths to inherit! :complete. See the documentation for what this does.

Answer 11

]3

1. Go To Build Phases
2. Open Copy Pods Resources and copy the path
3. Paste the path that you have copied from Copy Pods Resources and change tag name resources with frameworks
4. Clean and Build
5. Run your UITestsFile

Answer 12

For me, the error was when build the UITests. The solution: The Targer was with a wrong iOS version, I replace with the same version that the tested Target and everything works!!

Answer 13

If you are in fact using Cocoapods, you probably just need to run "pod install" and the build settings will be updated automatically.