Appium XCUITest installation cant be found

Issues/Bugs
1

Hi Forum,

After some frustration I seek support for a problem I encountered regarding installing XCUITest from appium.

installation versions
node : v20.0.0
npm: 9.6.4
appium: 2.0.0-beta.65
xcuitest: 4.24.0

In brief I used the command below from “https://github.com/appium/appium” guide:
npm install -g appium@next
appium driver install xcuitest

after installation I checked that driver was installed by
appium driver list --installed

I got the following output
:heavy_check_mark: Listing installed drivers

So the question is now, where can I find the installation folder of XCUITest???, moreover the webDriverAgent project that comes with the installation of XCUITest???.

From documentation found in “http://appium.github.io/appium-xcuitest-driver/4.19/real-device-config/”
I found that the webDriverAgent project can be found from the command
echo "$(dirname “$(find “$HOME/.appium” -name WebDriverAgent.xcodeproj)”)"

but I get the output
find: /Users/me/.appium: No such file or directory

Any help is appreciated.

br.

2

I just discovered that when starting appium the path of XCUITest is outputted as
[Appium] Welcome to Appium v2.0.0-beta.65 (REV)
[Appium] Attempting to load driver xcuitest…
[debug] [Appium] Requiring driver at /Users/me/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver

So from the path above I found the full path to the webDriverAgent project as:
/Users/me/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/node_modules/appium-webdriveragent

It took me a long time to figure this out!. Can you provide updated information about where to find XCUITest Installation, perhaps more relevant the webDriverAgent project???

br.

3

here →
/Users/YOUR_USER/.appium/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/node_modules/appium-webdriveragent

more info https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/blob/master/docs/real-device-config.md

4

Try to run appium driver run xcuitest open-wda as described in https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/blob/master/docs/real-device-config.md#appium-2x

5

your suggestion
/Users/YOUR_USER/.appium/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/node_modules/appium-webdriveragent
is what comes out of the command:
echo "$(dirname “$(find “$HOME/.appium” -name WebDriverAgent.xcodeproj)”)"
but it is not always installed in this path, e.g as mentioned in my case it was installed in
/Users/YOUR_USER/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/node_modules/appium-webdriveragent
(in short there was no hidden appium folder)

6

the guide you link to suggests
echo "$(dirname “$(find “$HOME/.appium” -name WebDriverAgent.xcodeproj)”)"
which was I have been using, it gave me an error that the .appium does not exists. I then found it myself in the the below path
/Users/YOUR_USER/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/node_modules/appium-webdriveragent
(in short there was no hidden appium folder)