I got jenkins run on mac with brew install. Setup robot and appiumlibrary in virtualenv, use npm install appium. I can run robot script on command line against android emulator, smoothly. But when i put those steps to jenkins. Jenkins can start appium and can bring up android emulator. but it seem like robot script cannot open application. Mostly I got this
Show intro as landing page [debug] e[35m[HTTP]e[39m Request idempotency key: d00f1d6c-48d5-4b93-8d71-581d645aa94d
[ WARN ] Keyword ‘Capture Page Screenshot’ could not be run on failure: No application is open
| FAIL |
ProtocolError: (‘Connection aborted.’, RemoteDisconnected(‘Remote end closed connection without response’))
This is how robot script run
*** Settings ***
Library AppiumLibrary*** Variables ***
${URL} http://127.0.01:4723/wd/hub
${PLATFORM} Android
${DEVICE_TARGET} 12.0
${DEVICE_NAME} emulator-5554
${APP_LOCATION} app.apk*** Keywords ***
Open Pixel
Open Application ${URL}
… platformName=${PLATFORM}
… platformVersion=${DEVICE_TARGET}
… deviceName=${DEVICE_NAME}
… app=${APP_LOCATION}
… automationName=UIAutomator2
This is my jenkins step
step 1
appium &
sleep 10
step 2
~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator/emulator -avd machine-B -no-audio -no-snapshot -wipe-data &
until ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb wait-for-device shell getprop init.svc.bootanim | grep -m 1 stopped; do
echo “Waiting…”
sleep 1
done
step 3
#!/bin/bash --login -x
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=~/Library/Android/sdk &
export PATH=“$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT:$PATH” &
source venv-robot/bin/activate &
venv-robot/bin/robot demo.robot
Welcome any suggestions 