Appium Master iOS10 (Xcode 8) Discussion

ken · September 15, 2016, 4:24pm

I’ve been trying to get it running on real device for about 3 days now at this stage. have Appium 1.6Beta, xcode 8 GM and devices with ios 9.3.2 and 10.0, and it gets as far as putting the WebDriverAgentRunner onto the devices and then sits there waiting for them to start :
[XCUITest] Waiting fo WebDriverAgent to start on device
but it never does.

If I execute the command which it prints out just prior ( xcodebuild -project … -scheme WebDriverAgentRunner - sdk iphoneos -destination… test) from a command line, it works fine, and I see the lines

ServerURLHere->http://…<-ServerURLHere
Listening on USB

as expected, yet never when run from appium…

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Ken

Christopher_Roberts · September 15, 2016, 4:28pm

Hi Ken,

How are you initialising the application? I have yet to test on a real device but thats next on the list so I will let you know what happens.

I use a C# Mobile Framework which we have written in-house to support our mobile development and test automation, this hasn’t had an issue with the simulator (As far as launching the application) but if you take a look at https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver there are some external dependencies for getting things running on a real device.

Let me know how you get on and I will do the same in due course.

Thanks

ken · September 16, 2016, 7:35am

Hi Christopher,
yeah i’ve got those dependencies all installed, as I said I can see the WebDriverAgent being loaded to the device, it starts up and then goes into the background.
I’m using the python client, which works fine with the same appium version etc using android, but it’s just the ios using xcuitest driver which seems to be getting stuck, and I can’t figure out why.
Ken

Christopher_Roberts · September 16, 2016, 8:53am

Just a thought, the parameters been sent when you launch the application is the bundle identifier correct?

ken · September 16, 2016, 8:57am

I’m not sure it’s even getting far enough for that to be a problem; appium is never seeing the ‘ServerURLHere’ line to indicate that webdriveragent has started, but when i run the same (I assume - I copy it from the output of appium) command directly from the command line, I do see it in the log.

I’ll try copy the 2 log scenarios here in a short while

Christopher_Roberts · September 16, 2016, 9:37am

Thanks Ken, if you can include an example Python script I can also follow along with my application to see if the results are the same.

May not get a chance until after the weekend is over.

ken · September 16, 2016, 9:57am

gist here:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/kenmcc/a97af199689df445c0cad4ea875c0e42

appiumconsole.log

MPS-4:ios10_testing User$ appium
[Appium] Welcome to Appium v1.6.0-beta1
[Appium] Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723
[HTTP] --> POST /wd/hub/session {"requiredCapabilities":{},"desiredCapabilities":{"deviceName":"iPad","udid":"1234567891234567891234567891234567891234","app":"/Users/User/ios10_testing/iPadDemo/build/Debug-iphoneos/iPadDemo.app","platformVersion":"9.3.2","platformName":"iOS","automationName":"xcuitest"}}
[MJSONWP] Calling AppiumDriver.createSession() with args: [{"deviceName":"iPad...
[Appium] Creating new XCUITestDriver session
[Appium] Capabilities:
[Appium]   deviceName: 'iPad'
[Appium]   udid: '1234567891234567891234567891234567891234'
[Appium]   app: '/Users/User/ios10_testing/iPadDemo/build/Debug-iphoneos/iPadDemo.app'

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appiumfail.txt

09:52:09.491 xcodebuild[5115:834086] Beginning test session WebDriverAgentRunner-8C14C9D1-CED8-445D-B6AD-D2836754ADE6 at 2016-09-16 09:52:09.488 with Xcode 8A218a on target <DVTiOSDevice: 0x7fab8e90fdb0> {
		deviceSerialNumber:         DMPMN4J4F185
		identifier:                 1234567891234567891234567891234567891234
		deviceClass:                iPad
		deviceName:                 iPad
		deviceIdentifier:           1234567891234567891234567891234567891234
		productVersion:             9.3.2
		buildVersion:               13F69
		deviceSoftwareVersion:      9.3.2 (13F69)
		deviceArchitecture:         armv7s

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commandlinerun.log

running the command from line 118 above:
xcodebuild -project /usr/local/Cellar/node/6.5.0/libexec/npm/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/WebDriverAgent/WebDriverAgent.xcodeproj -scheme WebDriverAgentRunner -verbose -sdk iphoneos -destination id=1234567891234567891234567891234567891234 CODE_SIGNING_IDENTITY="iPhone Developer" CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=YES test' in directory '/usr/local/Cellar/node/6.5.0/libexec/npm/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/WebDriverAgent'

This is the output from the command:
-------------------------------------

Last login: Thu Sep 15 16:40:34 on ttys006
MPS-4:~ User$ xcodebuild -project /usr/local/Cellar/node/6.5.0/libexec/npm/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/WebDriverAgent/WebDriverAgent.xcodeproj -scheme WebDriverAgentRunner -verbose -sdk iphoneos -destination id=1234567891234567891234567891234567891234 CODE_SIGNING_IDENTITY="iPhone Developer" CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=YES test
Build settings from command line:
    CODE_SIGNING_IDENTITY = iPhone Developer

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3 logs in that, first one is the xcodebuild log output , 2nd is the output from the console of appium and 3rd is when i run the same command from the commad line and it appears to get into the state that appium is waiting for

pythonwise it’s very simple:

from appium import webdriver
caps = {‘deviceName’: “iPad”, ‘udid’: ‘123456789123456789123456789123…’, ‘app’: ‘/Users/User/ios10_testing/iPadDemo/build/Debug-iphoneos/iPadDemo.app’, ‘platformVersion’: ‘9.3.2’, ‘platformName’: ‘iOS’, ‘automationName’: ‘xcuitest’}
driver = webdriver.Remote(“http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub”, caps)

eventually will come back with a stackdump ending with exception:
httplib.BadStatusLine: ‘’

it’s the same for ios10 device too,
Ken

ken · September 20, 2016, 1:20pm

I managed to get it working. I wasn’t specifying the realDeviceLogger capability
only took a week!

Christopher_Roberts · September 20, 2016, 7:30pm

Ha brilliant don’t think I would have caught that one I use different capabilitys in my framework.

Madhuri_QA · October 20, 2016, 6:23am

I have successfully launched iphone simulator with the following code in eclipse with appium server using ios10 update with Xcode8 using XCUITest.

public class LoginTest {

public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

DesiredCapabilities cap=new DesiredCapabilities();

File f= new File("/Users/devendra/Desktop/Appium/PogoiOS.app");
cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME, “iOS”);
cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_VERSION, “10.0”);
cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, “iPhone 6”);
cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.AUTOMATION_NAME,“XCUITest”);
cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, “”);
cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.APP,f.getAbsolutePath());

IOSDriver driver = new IOSDriver(new URL(“http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub”),cap);
//driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(600, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

}

maesiva · October 20, 2016, 6:43am

Hi Madhuri…

Thanks for sharing.
Continuing further, are you able to get control of the elements on your app screen? Like, click, tap, sendkey, setvale events…
Also, apart from, driver.getPAgeSource(), are you able to use any other inspection means?

Keep posting!

Madhuri_QA · October 20, 2016, 6:47am

Hi,

To get control of the elements on your app screen ,

UIATextField[1] is now XCUIElementTypeTextField[1]. But I need to explore more for the same as I am also on the way to automate with ios 10 & xcode 8

maesiva · October 20, 2016, 6:54am

Good luck, keep posting. We really need to keep this thread updated to ensure smooth transition to xcode 8.

Christopher_Roberts · December 5, 2016, 9:45am

I know it’s been some time since the initial post, but I will most likley be taking the jump this week to uplift appium and my project. I have been keeping an eye on the github commit’s and believe it’s time!

If anyone has any tip’s or warnings please let me know!

ssj87 · December 7, 2016, 4:37pm

Please help me out
In my case it is getting stuck on
[debug] [XCUITest] Waiting for WebDriverAgent server to finish loading…
[debug] [XCUITest] Waiting for WebDriverAgent server to finish loading…

Even i added realDeviceLogger capability.

Environment

iPad: 10.1
Appium 1.6.2
Xcode: 8.1

Please help me out of this

Blinkk · December 7, 2016, 9:49pm

@ssj87 Is this on simulator or real device and can you copy in your capabilities?

Christopher_Roberts · December 7, 2016, 10:31pm

Check the bundle identifier is correct in the launch parameters, if it’s incorrect appium will apear to hang.

Mehowe · January 5, 2017, 2:06pm

Thanks for this Chris, its really useful!

leppo · January 5, 2017, 5:14pm

My Developers just gave me the first build of an iOS app that was built with Xcode 8 (8.2.1 to be exact). To my surprise, my Appium scripts are working on my iPhone 6 running iOS 9.3. I thought I’ve read on this forum that if you build the app with XCode 8.x, the ‘old’ locator strategies won’t work, and the Appium Server 1.6.x is required along with the new locator strategies.

I definitely need to move my devices to iOS 10 soon, but if I keep my phone on iOS 9.x, should my current iOS scripts continue to work with Appium Server 1.5.3, even though the app was built with Xcode 8.x?

VInoth_kumar · January 6, 2017, 12:06pm

how to test my own app by replacing test integration app on WebDriverAgent xcodeproject?

Appium Master iOS10 (Xcode 8) Discussion

pythonwise it’s very simple:

eventually will come back with a stackdump ending with exception: httplib.BadStatusLine: ‘’

eventually will come back with a stackdump ending with exception:
httplib.BadStatusLine: ‘’