MATLAB App Testing - Confirmation dialog boxes

How can I handle confirmation dialog boxes when testing an app with gestures?

Ideally, I would like to choose 'OK' or 'Cancel' based on some variables' values.

I know there is not a straight-forward way to do it but is there any option so that they get disabled or something??

[Thomas Fournier]

you can create them, and chosse if they are visible or not, editable or note.

app.Button1.Visible='off'
app.Button2.Editable='off'

[Michaela Konstantinou]

but I dont have buttons and the confirmation boxes are not properties of the app. They are created with uiconfirm in a another component's callback function.

Answer 1

[Andy Campbell]

Until this functionality is included in the App Testing Framework, if you can adjust the architecture of the source code you can leverage a similar strategy as that outlined here and use a mock for the confirmation dialog.

Does that help you get going?

Thanks,

Andy

[Michaela Konstantinou]

The app I need to test is a large project with (too) many components and even more confirmation boxes. I have not fully understood how mock works but I think that cannot be applied to this case. Adjustments to the app's source code are surely impossible to happen.

Do you have any suggestions on how to understand mocks ? Just to make sure that they really can't help me.

Thank you very much,

Michaela

[Michaela Konstantinou]

I would like to ask if it is possible to close manualy these dialog boxes during testing with matlab.uitest.unlock. Where in the source code or the testing code should I add this feature? could you please help?

Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

You can dismiss and alert but not a confirmation dialog yet. Capability for alerts added in 21a.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2021a/matlab/ref/matlab.uitest.testcase.dismissalertdialog.html

[Michaela Konstantinou]

So there is no such choice for a confirmation box and no "hack" way to mimic it, right?

Thank you

[Sean de Wolski]

I don't know of any hacky way. I added your vote to the enhancement request for this.

[Michaela Konstantinou]

Thank you

Answer 3

[Houman Rastegarfar]

Starting in R2024b, you can use the chooseDialog and dismissDialog methods to programmatically interact with confirmation dialog boxes. For an example, see Select Option in Nonblocking Dialog Box.

Answer 4

[Cris LaPierre]

It sounds like you want to programmatically close a confirmation diaglog box. If so, see this answer.