Appium 1.4.11 Released

moizjv 2015-09-16 17:58:30 UTC #1

Hello fellow Appium users,

We have released Appium 1.4.11.

Changes from 1.4.10

iOS

fix for iOS simulator selector for Xcode 7
fix for selecting default device for iOS9

You can track dot-app release issue here and dot-exe release issue here.

Cheers,
Moiz

Appium, starting iOS simulator

Appium client does not recognise the chosen device at OSX OS

moizjv 2015-09-16 17:58:53 UTC #2

tbao 2015-09-17 18:45:49 UTC #3

hi @moizjv,

Do you have any plan to enable instruments-without-delay for Xcode 7? Currently I have a test suite that runs for almost 8 hour to finish. I can imagine without instruments-without-delay option, that suite will runs for days

Thanks.

Alex_Chen 2015-09-18 06:30:49 UTC #4

Why nobody want to build a dmg file?
1.4.8 is the latest version for download.

moizjv 2015-09-18 15:27:38 UTC #5

hi @tbao,

Yes we want to research that option. I have not been able to take time for that. Though for xcode 7 you might have to do it yourself, as old way of passing arguments does not work.

If you can make this work https://github.com/lawrencelomax/instruments-without-delay/tree/xcode7-quirks#xcode-7--ios-9-support, let me know or add it to docs of appium, would help lot of people.

Thanks
Moiz

mweiss88 2015-09-30 21:34:08 UTC #6

Hi I would just like to say it would be great if we could get a fix for the instruments-without-delay flag in Xcode 7 as Appium is extremely slow without it. Without a way around the 1 second delay it is very difficult to use Appium for testing a whole app, especially at an enterprise level.

moizjv 2015-09-30 22:23:22 UTC #7

@mweiss88 try using xcode 7.1 beta, not confirmed but looks like it is working with 7.1.

mweiss88 2015-09-30 22:35:44 UTC #8

Thanks I'll try this probably tomorrow and let you know if it's working for certain or not

DexRobinson 2015-10-01 12:00:56 UTC #9

I tried this but it cannot find the iOS SDK Version

DexRobinson 2015-10-01 12:04:09 UTC #10

Forgot, I needed to update to Appium 1.4.13, trying again

DexRobinson 2015-10-01 12:09:38 UTC #11

Nope, even with 1.4.13 I still get the same error.

mweiss88 2015-10-01 20:40:07 UTC #12

@moizjv o i tried using instruments-without-delay using appium 4.1.11 on xcode 7.1 Beta2 and it is much slower than using xcode 6 for the same version of appium and same tests.

moizjv 2015-10-01 21:02:47 UTC #13

ok I am going to investigate this next week. I will keep you updated on this

tbao 2015-10-01 21:13:27 UTC #14

@mweiss88 it's because instruments-without-delay is turned off for xcode 7.1. I have twist the appium source code a bit to turn it on for xcode 7, and do as: https://github.com/lawrencelomax/instruments-without-delay/tree/xcode7-quirks#xcode-7--ios-9-support
Currently it's the only workaround that I know for this

mweiss88 2015-10-01 21:36:59 UTC #15

@tbao thanks, I'll give that a try when I get the chance (will be a few days). Obviously a permanent fix in appium would be ideal but thanks for the work around!

moizjv 2015-10-01 21:48:21 UTC #16

@tbao can you share how you got it working?

tbao 2015-10-02 16:36:19 UTC #17

@moizjv Maybe you got me wrong because all I did is just follow this: https://github.com/lawrencelomax/instruments-without-delay/tree/xcode7-quirks#xcode-7--ios-9-support. I just modified the plist and it works.
Hopefully you can find better solution for this instead of modifying the plist

Degard 2015-10-06 07:50:59 UTC #18

Hi @tbao I also have problem with it.
It is clear that environment variable should be adde to plist file.

But how to do it step by step?
Could you explain it more extendedly?

Thanks.

tbao 2015-10-06 16:26:22 UTC #19

@Degard Here are the steps that I did:
1. Checkout this project: https://github.com/lawrencelomax/instruments-without-delay first. Make sure you can open it by Xcode and build it successfully.

Back up this file: ./Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator.sdk/Developer/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.instruments.deviceservice.plist ( I assume your Xcode is installed in the same directory of mine, otherwise you can do a search from Xcode directory with file name "com.apple.instruments.deviceservice.plist")
Open that file and add this key - dict:
<key>EnvironmentVariables</key> <dict> <key>DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES</key> <string>/Users/tbao/Developer/tools/appium/instruments-without-delay/build/DTMobileISShim.dylib</string> <key>LIB_PATH</key> <string>/Users/tbao/Developer/tools/appium/instruments-without-delay/build</string </dict>

Note: You have to change the values for the two keys DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES, LIB_PATH according to your checked out instruments-without-delay project.

Now try to run appium again and see if it works. To be frankly, how the author of this project solves the problem is still a mystery to me but at least it works for me. Let me know if you have any problem and I'll try to get back to you when I have time

Degard 2015-10-07 04:46:41 UTC #20

@tbao Thank you, It works for me now.