= Testing your App with FaceID Feature - pCloudy documentation

Test your apps with iOS Biometric Authentication

A majority of mobile devices today support Biometric hardware sensors to authenticate the device owner’s identity. pCloudy enables you to test the Authentication features such as Touch ID/Face ID on the apple devices connected on the pCloudy platform.

Simply connect to a device on the platform and once the device is connected, the user can inject a passing or failing Touch ID or face ID, depending on the device model.

Touch ID supported Devices

Face ID supported Devices

Pre-requisites:

  • App should be installed with the pCloudy biometric framework. Download the File

    Steps to configure the pCloudy biometric framework with your test application

    • Extract the downloaded zip file
    • Once the file is extracted, add "BiometricAuthentication.framework" to your project
    • Mention "import BioMetricAuthenticator" on your project as shown in below screenshot
      • Install
    • Use BioMetricAuthenticator instead of LAContext as shown in below code
      • Install

      Once the above steps are performed. You can go ahead and use the generated .ipa file on the pCloudy devices for biometric authentication.

  • App should stay in front during testing
  • The application must be "resigned or trusted" at time of installation on device.

pCloudy allows users to bypass the “biometric auth” in a manual test or an automated process by using Appium.

1. Steps to inject a fingerprint or face ID for Manual testing:

Step 1

  • Connect any iOS device and click on “INSTALL”.
Install

Step 2

  • Install the application on the connected device. Make sure that the app under test stays in the foreground.
MyAppData
  • Make sure that the app under test stays in the foreground.
MyAppData

Step 3

  • Open “All Actions” and click on “Touch ID” or “Face ID” icon
FaceID Verification

Step 4

  • In the Touch ID or Face ID, do one of the following:
    • To test a successful Touch ID or Face ID, click on Pass
    • To test an invalid Touch ID or Face ID, click Fail
pCloudy Session pCloudy Session

2. Steps to use Touch/Face ID for Automation(Appium)

pCloudy command:mobile:biometric:auth

The command should be activated in the automation script at the point that the target application presents a "popup" indicating that the application is trying to retrieve information from the Touch/Face ID reader.

This command will inject the authentication reply for Touch/Face ID check performed by the application.

Sample

Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<>();
//Enter authentication result as true or false
params.put("auth", true);
System.out.println(driver.executeScript("mobile:biometric:auth",params));