possibility to consume patrol build output in patrol test?

[ewann]

What I want to do:

Use artefacts generated by patrol build from patrol test. Put another way, I don't want patrol test to generate a build on the fly when it is invoked

Why do I want this?

I want to parallelise local tests of my project which has multiple flavours. For reasons that aren't likely interesting here, some build inputs are substituted at build time depending on the flavour. A consequence is that build inputs can be in an inconsistent state when more than one patrol test is invoked, due to actions by scripts wrapping this command

What I tried:

patrol build
xcodebuild test-without-building -xctestrun build/ios_integ/Build/Products/Runner_iphonesimulator17.4-arm64-x86_64.xctestrun -destination 'platform=iOS Simulator,name=iPhone 15 Pro Max,OS=17.4'

which hangs at:

    t =      nans Checking existence of `"Allow" Button`
    t =      nans Open <appid>
    t =      nans     Launch <appid>
    t =      nans         Setting up automation session
    t =      nans         Wait for <appid> to idle

before eventually timing out, I guess because I'm bypassing the startup of the associated patrol test infra

Reading:

• https://github.com/leancodepl/patrol/blob/master/packages/patrol_cli/lib/src/commands/test.dart
• https://patrol.leancode.co/cli-commands/test
• Can I recycle the same app instance between multiple tests? #1894 (not exactly related but the closest I noticed)

Leaves me believing this is not currently possible, and would be a feature request. But maybe, I simply didn't RTFM well enough? 😅

Workaround:

An unattractive but low effort way for me to work around this involves duplicating the source, running my flavour customisations, and invoking patrol test as normal

but I welcome observations / suggestions 😄