UI Automation worked fine with iOS5 simulator, but not with iOS6 and iOS7

Question

It seems like iOS5 simulator is not supported on Mavericks. That was the only simulator that worked for me, and I have a bunch of tests in UI Automation. iOS6 and iOS7 simulator takes 2-5 times longer to load (about 30-50 seconds), and my guess is that instruments times out before the sim is started. I get a "An error occurred while trying to run the script." however - the error message appears after 1 minute. I have a MacBook Air 1.4 Ghz with 2GB of memory. Quite strange that iOS5 worked so snappy and all other simualtors so incredibly slow. Any ideas?

Answer 1

It doesn't seem to be a Mavericks issue. Are you using Xcode 5.0.1? I am and it completely broke the UIAutomation tool. I cannot run any tests at all as they all fail to start. I've tried Mountain Lion and Mavericks and the results are the same.

I hope Apple fixes this ASAP.