Can't run inspector tool appium 1.6.0-beta1 Xcode 8.0

Issues/Bugs
1

If I run tests on application UICatalog from appium tutorial everything is working properly and test is executed on Simulator. However I am unable to run Appium inspector tool to inspect elements (trying to inspect same application UICatalog).
When I try to run inspector tool I can see following error in the log:

Details: Appium’s IosDriver does not support xcode version 8.0. Apple has deprecated UIAutomation. Use the “XCUITest” automationName capability instead.

But I am not able to force inspector tool to use XCUITest instead of UIAutomation.
Is there any way how to handle this?

OS:
macOS Sierra 10.12 (16A323)

Xcode:
Version 8.0 (8A218a)

Iphone Simulator:
iPhone6 - iOS 9.3 (13E233)

Appium version:
1.6.0-beta1

Test setup:
I am using same setup like in appium tutorial for iOS

This is my setup method (little bit adjusted)

public void setUp() throws Exception {
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(“appium-version”, “1.1.0”);
capabilities.setCapability(“platformVersion”, “9.3”);
capabilities.setCapability(“platformName”, “ios”);
capabilities.setCapability(“deviceName”, “iPhone Simulator”);
capabilities.setCapability(“automationName”, “XCUITest”); //use XCUITest required by Xcode 8.0

    // Set job name on Sauce Labs
    capabilities.setCapability("name", "Java iOS tutorial ");
    String userDir = System.getProperty("user.dir");
    String localApp = "UICatalog6.1.app.zip";
    String appPath = Paths.get(userDir, localApp).toAbsolutePath().toString();
    capabilities.setCapability("app", appPath);
    driver = new AppiumDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);

    String sessionId = driver.getSessionId().toString();

    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    int timeoutInSeconds = 60;
    // must wait at least 60 seconds for running on Sauce.
    // waiting for 30 seconds works locally however it fails on Sauce.
    driverWait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeoutInSeconds);
   
}

Appium Log:

[Appium] Welcome to Appium v1.6.0-beta1

[Appium] Non-default server args:

[Appium]   debugLogSpacing: true
[Appium]   platformName: 'iOS'
[Appium]   platformVersion: '9.3'
[Appium]   automationName: 'XCUITest'
[Appium]   deviceName: 'iPhone 6'
[Appium]   app: 'com.example.apple-samplecode.UICatalog'
[Appium]   noReset: true

[Appium]   nativeInstrumentsLib: true
[Appium] Deprecated server args:
[Appium]   --platform-name => --default-capabilities '{"platformName":"iOS"}'
[Appium]   --platform-version => --default-capabilities '{"platformVersion":"9.3"}'
[Appium]   --automation-name => --default-capabilities '{"automationName":"XCUITest"}'
[Appium]   --device-name => --default-capabilities '{"deviceName":"iPhone 6"}'
[Appium]   --app => --default-capabilities '{"app":"com.example.apple-samplecode.UICatalog"}'
[Appium]   --no-reset => --default-capabilities '{"noReset":true}'
[Appium]   --native-instruments-lib => --default-capabilities '{"nativeInstrumentsLib":true}'
[Appium] Default capabilities, which will be added to each request unless overridden by desired capabilities:

[Appium]   platformName: 'iOS'

[Appium]   platformVersion: '9.3'
[Appium]   automationName: 'XCUITest'
[Appium]   deviceName: 'iPhone 6'
[Appium]   app: 'com.example.apple-samplecode.UICatalog'
[Appium]   noReset: true
[Appium]   nativeInstrumentsLib: true

[Appium] Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723

[HTTP] --> GET /wd/hub/status {}

[MJSONWP] Calling AppiumDriver.getSessions() with args: []

[MJSONWP] Responding to client with driver.getSessions() result: []

[HTTP] <-- GET /wd/hub/sessions 200 2 ms - 40 

[HTTP] --> POST /wd/hub/session {"desiredCapabilities":{"platformName":"iOS","platformVersion":"9.3","newCommandTimeout":"7200","automationName":"Appium","bundleId":"com.example.apple-samplecode.UICatalog","deviceName":"iPhone 6"}}

[MJSONWP] Calling AppiumDriver.createSession() with args: [{"platformName":"iOS","pla...

[Appium] Creating new IosDriver session
[Appium] Capabilities:
[Appium]   platformName: 'iOS'
[Appium]   platformVersion: '9.3'
[Appium]   newCommandTimeout: '7200'
[Appium]   automationName: 'Appium'
[Appium]   bundleId: 'com.example.apple-samplecode.UICatalog'
[Appium]   deviceName: 'iPhone 6'
[Appium]   app: 'com.example.apple-samplecode.UICatalog'
[Appium]   noReset: true
[Appium]   nativeInstrumentsLib: true
[BaseDriver] Capability 'newCommandTimeout' changed from string ('7200') to integer (7200). This may cause unexpected behavior
[BaseDriver] Session created with session id: 3aefc986-6d24-4f3c-8718-7438136bdfac

[debug] [iOS] Xcode version set to 8.0

[iOS] SessionNotCreatedError: A new session could not be created. Details: Appium's IosDriver does not support xcode version 8.0. Apple has deprecated UIAutomation. Use the "XCUITest" automationName capability instead.
    at IosDriver.createSession$ (lib/driver.js:120:28)
    at tryCatch (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:67:40)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke [as _invoke] (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:315:22)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) [as next] (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:100:21)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:136:37)
 { SessionNotCreatedError: A new session could not be created. Details: Appium's IosDriver does not support xcode version 8.0. Apple has deprecated UIAutomation. Use the "XCUITest" automationName capability instead.
    at IosDriver.createSession$ (lib/driver.js:120:28)
    at tryCatch (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:67:40)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke [as _invoke] (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:315:22)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) [as next] (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:100:21)
    at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:136:37) jsonwpCode: 33 }
2

In Xcode 8.+, instruments automation template have been removed from “Developer Tools > Instruments”. I have kept Xcode 7.3.+ as well. To build app on iOS 10 and Swift3 I use X-code 8.+ and to run test set Xcode 7.3.+ as default Xcode from command line. I have moved Xcode 8 into xcode8 folder in Application

To set xcode 7.3.+ as default : 
sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/

To set xcode8 as default:
sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/xcode8/Xcode-8.app/Contents/Developer/
1 Like
3

Thanks for your answer. I will try it out.

4

Has anybody got it working? The inspector does not come up with Xcode 8 and appium 1.6.0. For inspector to work, the only option is to go back to Xcode 7.2? I did not try that path yet.

5

So far I haven’t found any solution how to use inspector with Xcode 8 and appium 1.6.0.
But I have used approach suggested by @Suman_Bala (With Xcode 7.3) and it is working.

6

Hi all,

Currently, appium 1.6 is not available in GUI to inspect the elements, but there is workaround you can get the elements.

Try this :

7

There is a great help with this…
It is working nicely :slight_smile: