iOS sendKeys and setValue() halts the execution, partially entering the String when tested for longer duration of test execution

[Prasad_Madge]

My test case execution is halted whenever appium is trying to do sendKeys or setValue.

This happens once in 20 execution.

I am automating an native application on iOS(10.2) with Appium (1.7) and Xcode 9.

This is similar to this issue : 476.

Is there any other alternative to enter text other than sendKeys and setValue which can avoid appium freeze issue while send keys.

My execution halts exactly while inserting partial string , logs shown below:

[debug] [JSONWP Proxy] Proxying [POST /element] to [POST http://localhost:8679/session/ED29E8E7-983C-49A7-BFE9-1FA050B6A114/element] with body: {“using”:“accessibility id”,“value”:"*******"}
[debug] [JSONWP Proxy] Got response with status 200: {“value”:{“ELEMENT”:“527257AA-D495-43FB-9D15-99169BC1F2C2”},“sessionId”:“ED29E8E7-983C-49A7-BFE9-1FA050B6A114”,“status”:0}
[debug] [MJSONWP] Responding to client with driver.findElement() result: {“ELEMENT”:“527257AA-D495-43FB-9D15-99169BC1F2C2”}
[HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session/57d3099b-ab38-41dc-ad5c-141ca64c175a/element 200 1289 ms - 122
[HTTP] --> POST /wd/hub/session/57d3099b-ab38-41dc-ad5c-141ca64c175a/element/527257AA-D495-43FB-9D15-99169BC1F2C2/value {“id”:“527257AA-D495-43FB-9D15-99169BC1F2C2”,“value”:[“Quality@1234”]}
[debug] [MJSONWP] Calling AppiumDriver.setValue() with args: [[“Quality@1234”],“527257AA-D495-43FB-9D15-99169BC1F2C2”,“57d3099b-ab38-41dc-ad5c-141ca64c175a”]
[debug] [XCUITest] Executing command ‘setValue’
[debug] [JSONWP Proxy] Proxying [POST /element/527257AA-D495-43FB-9D15-99169BC1F2C2/value] to [POST http://localhost:8679/session/ED29E8E7-983C-44A7-BFE9-1FA050B6A114/element/527257AA-D795-43FB-9D15-99169BC1F2C2/value] with body: {“value”:[“Q”,“u”,“a”,"@",“1”,“2”,“3”,“4”]}