IOS: How to handle the Google ads appearing randomly while automating the IOS App test

Question

I am getting random (Google) ads (banners) while automating the App test. The ads are covering the full screen of the device and there is one cross-mark at the top of the ad to close it.

I tried

autoacceptalert, false

to close the ad but its not working.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Answer 1

First option you have is to ask your developers to create a version of the application without ads.

Advantages - No ads.

Disadvantages - You will not be testing the exact same code as you plan to release.

You can disable only fullscreen ad.

I think there is no best way to do this. Stable automate checks or checking the exact same code as you plan to release.

Second option is to catch if ad is visible, and press back button.

For example (example fo Android):

protected boolean checkAdvert(AppiumDriver<WebElement> driver, int timeout) {
    By adTree = By.xpath("//hierarchy/android.widget.FrameLayout[1]/android.widget.LinearLayout[1]/android.widget.FrameLayout[1]/android.widget.RelativeLayout[1]");
    Map<String, Object> adParams = new HashMap<>();
    //trying to wait for the ad to come up and then click the Expense button
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(0, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    driver.context("NATIVE_APP");           
    FluentWait<WebDriver> await = new FluentWait<WebDriver> (driver)
            .withTimeout(timeout, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
            .pollingEvery(500, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
            .ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class);
    try {
        await.until (ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(driver.findElement(adTree)));
        // go BACK to eliminate the popup
        adParams.clear();
        adParams.put("keySequence", "BACK");
        driver.executeScript("mobile:presskey", adParams);
        System.out.println("Press the back button to get out of ad");
        return true;
    } catch (Exception t) {
        System.out.println("no ad showed up");
        return false;
    }
}

and use this in page object class:

public void addExp(String desc, String amount) {
    do {
        try  {
            driver.context("WEBVIEW");
            driver.findElement(expDesc).sendKeys(desc);
            driver.findElement(expAmnt).sendKeys(amount);
            adClick = false;
        } catch (NoSuchElementException ne) {
            adClick = checkAdvert(driver, 1);
            if (!adClick) throw ne;
        }
    } while (adClick);
}

Source: Dismiss a popup advertisement while automating an app

But you must remember that ads may be different, you can try to find universal selector. But I think it will hard to cover all cases.

adTree = By.xpath("//hierarchy/android.widget.FrameLayout[1]/android.widget.LinearLayout[1]/android.widget.FrameLayout[1]/android.widget.RelativeLayout[1]");