For developers, I think you can write ui automation tests in javascript for your own app during debugging/testing. In the general case, for published apps, I'm

For developers, I think you can write ui automation tests in javascript for your own app during debugging/testing. In the general case, for published apps, I'm not seeing it happen. Apple seems to be super focused on sandboxing and separating components on iOS. Even with the new iOS8 extensions, everything needs to be user triggered and even then, extensions live on separate islands. It's doubtful they'll change that model since it would defeat the "you can't break your idevice even if you tried" feeling for end users and the app store.