xcodebuild equivalent of Xcode's “Product > Build For > Testing”

Question

I'm trying to write a script that submits iOS apps to AppThwack (a 'real device' UI testing service). Their guidance is to use the Xcode GUI and build the app using the Build For > Testing option in the Xcode Product menu. This works, but I haven't been able to translate this into the xcodebuild equivalent.

More generally, how do we determine what arguments Xcode is passing to xcodebuild (assuming it uses that tool).

Answer 1

This is now possible as of Xcode 8 (in beta at time of writing). Use build-for-testing .

Example:

xcodebuild -workspace <workspace> -scheme <scheme> -destination 'generic/platform=iOS' build-for-testing

To switch to a beta version of xcodebuild, use xcode-select :

sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer

Answer 2

xctool has a flag called build-tests that will do just that.

(As of this post, it is not currently Xcode 7 compatible, but they are working on it.)