How to use appium from terminal for testing and GUI for uiautomator simultaneously?

sarozNep 2017-09-22 16:15:21 UTC #1

Recently i uninstalled my Appium gui for mac and started testing from terminal. Now, i want to inspect the elements but i dont know how to do that… can any1 help with this ?

Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-23 08:43:44 UTC #2

You can have both of them installed in your machine but they can’t be run simultaneously on same port. Change the port number of Appium Desktop to 4724 and let terminal continue to run on 4723, this way you can have them running in parallel.

sarozNep 2017-09-25 10:29:51 UTC #3

It is not working like that… i managed to put different port for terminal and desktop…

iOS - the app is not even starting
Android- the app is starting but ui automator is not starting.

Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-25 12:07:26 UTC #4

Can you please share the error logs of both iOS and Android

Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-25 12:13:32 UTC #5

you can start two session at the same time, but only one iOS simulator will run at any point of time.
For Eg: If the automation suite is running on Appium server port 4723 and you try to launch the Appium Desktop Inspector on port 4724, the automation suite will end immediately and Inspector will start showing up.

On Android parallelization is possible, your desired capabilities should be set correctly.

sarozNep 2017-09-25 12:26:29 UTC #6

For IOS the error is -----A new session could not be created. Details: Appium’s IosDriver does not support xcode version 8.3.2. Apple has deprecated UIAutomation. Use the “XCUITest” automationName capability instead.

… I have used automationName correctly.

For android – there is no any error log … nothing happens except app open in phone when i click start session

Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-25 12:50:52 UTC #7

“Appium’s IosDriver does not support xcode version 8.3.2” - Can you update your xcode and try again?

What’s the version of Appium Server?

Android - In Appium Inspector -> app will lauch and stay open for your to get the element id’s. So its working as expected.

sarozNep 2017-09-25 12:58:16 UTC #8

iOS - i am updating
Android- I cannot see the UI automator starting… only app starts and it loads and loads.

Terminal appium version: 1.7.0 https://github.com/appium/appium/releases/tag/v1.7.0

Gui appium version : 1.2.1 https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases/tag/v1.2.1

sarozNep 2017-09-25 13:21:50 UTC #9

After i updated the xcode to 9.0.

A new session could not be created. Details: Appium’s IosDriver does not support xcode version 9.0. Apple has deprecated UIAutomation. Use the “XCUITest” automationName capability instead.

Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-25 14:14:26 UTC #10

add this to your Desired Capabilities:
automationName: ‘XCUITest’

sarozNep 2017-09-25 14:26:37 UTC #11

I wrote that … i am using that desired capabilities but still getting the error.

Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-25 14:42:47 UTC #12

github.com

appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps.md

## Appium Desired Capabilities

Desired Capabilities are keys and values encoded in a JSON object, sent by
Appium clients to the server when a new automation session is requested. They
tell the Appium drivers all kinds of important things about how you want your
test to work. Each Appium client builds capabilities in a way specific to the
client's language, but at the end of the day, they are sent over to Appium as
JSON objects.

Some important capabilities are demonstrated in the following example:

```json
{
    "platformName": "iOS",
    "platformVersion": "11.0",
    "deviceName": "iPhone 7",
    "automationName": "XCUITest",
    "app": "/path/to/my.app"
}
```

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Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-25 14:43:16 UTC #13

can please share your desired capabilities here

sarozNep 2017-09-25 14:47:07 UTC #14

{
“platformName”: “iOS”,
“deviceName”: “iPhone 6”,
“noReset”: false,
“showXcodeLog”: true,
"automationName ": “XCUITest”,
“xcodeSigningId”: “iPhone Developer”,
“app”: “/XX/XX/XX/XX”,
“platformVersion”: “10.3.2”
}

Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-25 15:09:47 UTC #15

{
‘platformName’: ‘iOS’,
‘deviceName’: ‘iPhone 6’,
‘automationName’: ‘XCUITest’,
‘platformVersion’: ‘10.3’,
‘noReset’: ‘true’,
}

Start the Appium server from terminal by typing ‘appium’ command. Ensure that Appium 1.7.0 is starting on terminal on port 4723

Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-25 15:10:49 UTC #16

If error happens agin, please share the full error logs for debugging.

sarozNep 2017-09-25 15:17:40 UTC #17

I can run the test easily from terminal … it doesnot have any problem … i have problem to inspect the element for further test cases … previously i used only GUI … i uninstalled it and then used terminal. I installed GUI again and trying to use it.

I also tried with your desired capabilities … but error is :

Sdk ‘10.3.2’ was not in list of simctl sdks

Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-25 15:38:58 UTC #18

got it +1

Appium Desktop doesn’t support Xcode 9 yet. Try the following workaround:

1. Uninstall current version of XCode
2. Open https://developer.apple.com/download/more/?name=Xcode
3. Download xpi for 8.3.3 (or any other version you like)
4. Install xpi
5. Move XCode to Applications
6. Restart your OS machine
7. Run Appium Server. Run XCode. Enjoy!
8. Don't upgrade XCode to newer version
9. Wait for Appium to release support for XCode 9.0 and then update XCode to 9.0.

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Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-25 15:39:48 UTC #19

For inspecting elements alone try the above steps, when running test cases use the terminal.

Venkatesh_Akula 2017-09-25 16:57:01 UTC #20

Work around for your problem, pretty simple than downloading Xcode 8.3.3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGpfjbPsO20

This video solve the below error:

“An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Xcode version 9.0 is not yet supported”