iOS Biometric Testing
  • 21 Mar 2023
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Overview

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
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    • Use BioMetricAuthenticator instead of LAContext as shown in below code
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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.

Injecting a fingerprint or face ID manually

  1. Connect any iOS device and click on “INSTALL”.
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  2. Install the application on the connected device. Make sure that the app under test stays in the foreground.
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  3. Open “All Actions” and click on “Touch ID” or “Face ID” icon
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  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

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Using Touch/Face ID through 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));

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