SpeziTemplateApplication testOnboardingFlow failing

[kkellybonilla]

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SpeziTemplateApplication

Description

I've updated to the latest package versions and incorporated the changes from THIS PR into my Spezi Template Application; however, the testOnboardingFlow test is continuing to fail.

I'm not sure how to proceed in debugging this and would appreciate some help.
It's failing at the following points with the following error:

Reproduction

Run the testOnboardingFlow inside the following Spezi Template Application on the linked to branch elsa-bismuth/connect-activity-to-firestore

Expected behavior

testOnboardingFlow should run successfully

Additional context

This is for the Stanford360 Team for CS 342. The test is failing on the CI as shown here.

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[PSchmiedmayer]

@kkellybonilla Thank you for reaching out!

I just checked out the branch and GitHub Action run at https://github.com/CS342/2025-Stanford-360/actions/runs/13195705266?pr=8. If you download the Artifacts at the bottom of the screen, you can see the video recording of the test on the runner:

If you watch the video, it seems like the simulator completely crashed at that point, which is not your fault; it was a bug in Xcode and the iOS simulator by Apple. Unfortunately, we see that in about 5% of CI runs, and it only got worse in newer Xcode versions. We are not the only ones struggling with that; it is a known issue. The best suggestion out there is to reset all simulators, and we do exactly that before the run.

In short, I would suggest just re-running the test in the CI. In these cases, there is a button to "Re-run jobs" and then an option to restart only failing ones on GitHub:

Regarding your local test: This seems to be a separate issue. It might be that your Firestore emulator is not running or might have an old user account there that fails to create a new account. I would suggest shutting down any instances of the emulator (control + C) and then restarting the emulator at the root of your project folder using firebase emulators:start