Calabash-ios on Xamarin Studio

Calabash-ios is a popular testing framework. In one of my previous posts, I discussed how to setup Calabash-android on windows. Calabash-ios setup on mac is lot simpler to setup if you are using Xcode as out of the box the fast track calabash-ios setup Option is provided which configures the xcode for you. But if you happen to 

use Xamarin studio on Mac, then you have to do manual setup, but its easy to configure. 

Assuming you have successfully setup the Calabash-cucumber gem in your mac machine,

the following are the steps for Xamarin ios project.

1. Download the Calabash-framework in the project directory(i.e the path where your .csproj
file is present). In the Terminal, go to the project directory path and type calabash-ios download.
This would download the Calabash-framework directory which you would use in step 2.

. NOTE: I happen to download from their framework downloads link (calabash.framework-0.9.126.zip) 

and it didnt work correctly(as of July 13 2013).  Copy the downloaded folder to the project 

directory(i.e the path where your .csproj file is present)

2. In the Xamarin studio, on the IOS project of your app(say Myapp.ios.csproj), you have to 
configure the option to force load the calabash-framework. The reason that we have to do
this for calabash-ios is because the calabash server runs as part of the app itself(rather than
in android the instrumentation server will run on a seperate app). And its better you
configure this in Debug configuration so that release builds does not have this.

In the Additional mtouch arguments, configure

-gcc_flags "-framework CFNetwork -framework CoreGraphics -force_load $(ProjectDir)/calabash.framework/calabash -lstdc++"

3. Now when you run the app on the Iphone simulator, the test server would be started and you can confirm this from the following entry in the output window

2013-07-13 14:21:39.100 FieldServiceiOS[13911:23803] Bonjour Service Published: domain(local.) type(_http._tcp.) name(Calabash Server)

Optionally you can confirm that the server is working by running any query(say query("button") in the calabash-ios console from the Terminal. You would be able to see an output like this

My-MacBook-Pro:Myapp.iOS Me$ calabash-ios console

Running irb...

irb(main):001:0> query("button")

[

    [0] {

              "class" => "UIButton",

               "rect" => {

            "center_x" => 158,

                   "y" => 376,

               "width" => 150,

                   "x" => 83,

            "center_y" => 401.5,

              "height" => 51

        },

              "frame" => {

                 "y" => 358,

             "width" => 150,

                 "x" => 125,

            "height" => 51

        },

             "UIType" => "UIControl",

        "description" => "<UIButton: 0x163cce70; frame = (125 358; 150 51); opaque = NO; autoresize = LM+RM+BM; layer = <CALayer: 0x163cb7d0>>"

    }

]

irb(main):003:0>