Autoalerts not working for iOS by Appium in C#

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Ok, first thank you for posting the full log. I do see a lot of problems in there, and I’m going to try and cover them all, but first let me address the issue at hand: Why are your alerts not being accepted.

When I look at the first (truncated) log, I see this:

[XCUITest]\cf2 Executing command ‘getAlertText’
[debug] \cf3 [WD Proxy]\cf2 Matched ‘/alert/text’ to command name ‘getAlertText’
[debug] \cf3 [WD Proxy]\cf2 Proxying [GET /alert/text] to [GET http://127.0.0.1:8100/session/2A8493E7-71C7-459F-A1D4-B5B399F30F2A/alert/text] with no body
\cf3 [WD Proxy]\cf2 Got response with status 404: {“value”:{“error”:“no such alert”,“message”:“An attempt was made to operate on a modal dialog when one was not open”,“traceback”:“”},“sessionId”:“2A8493E7-71C7-459F-A1D4-B5B399F30F2A”}
[debug] \cf3 [W3C]\cf2 Matched W3C error code ‘no such alert’ to NoSuchAlertError\

What does the above mean? If read plainly it says that the test code attempted to get the /alert/text, but there was no alert present. Note that this error is NOT present in the second, more complete log.

Here are the reasons the error could not be handled:

  1. Timing issue. Code to handle alert is called before/after alert is present. In this case I would think it’s before.
  2. Pop up is not an alert. Not all pop ups are alerts. I would encourage you to take a look with Appium Inspector to see if element of type XCUIElementTypeAlert exists. If not, it’s not an alert and you will have to handle it with your code.
  3. Mistake in your code. This one is tough to judge as I can’t see your code. However, the log shows some problems so I will address those in the hope that you can improve it.
  4. Bug in Appium. While I think this is unlikely, if you really think so you should write a Short Self Contained Correct Example and share it. More on that concept here: http://www.sscce.org/

For the second, (more complete) log, the above issue is not present. In that log the failure is:

WebDriverAgent]\cf2 xcodebuild exited with code ‘65’ and signal ‘null’

This indicates a problem with signing the WebDriverAgent. This is outside the scope of handling alerts, so I encourage you to read and follow this tutorial:
https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/blob/master/docs/real-device-config.md

Other advice:

  1. Your capabilities are inconsistent, at best. Why use MobileCapabilityType for only some capabilities but not others? Try to be consistent in your code if only to eliminate errors.
  2. You don’t include the capability, ‘automationName’. The log complains about this and states that in the future this will be required. Why not fix it now before it’s a problem?

Finally, I’m going to point you to 2 things:

  1. A couple of basic tutorials on automating with dot net: Mobile Automation with Appium in .NET - Setup and writing first test - Multiplatform App https://www.automatetheplanet.com/getting-started-appium-android-csharp/
  2. Another thread on iOS Alerts. We can all learn a lot from reading these: Unable to accept iOS permission alerts from appium automation code

I wish you good luck and I hope this helps.