How to do mobile app automation using Cucumber-Appium for IOS device/emulator in Windows 8

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How to do mobile app automation using Cucumber-Appium for IOS device/emulator in Windows 8?
Anybody kindly tell the steps for IOS automation for Iphone emulator in windows 8.

thanks,
Chan

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OSX is required, cause Windows doesn’t have Xcode. So, you can’t automate iPhone real device or emulator on Windows.

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Is there any way to work it out with Xcode setup in windows (xcode is available as setup file for windows).
I have installed Microsoft WebMatrix through which I am able to launch iphone emulator. In case of Android, we have adb to deal with android device or emulator, which is working fine in my machine.
I saw something called idb for ios. I installed idb gem and tried to bring the launched iphone emulator in the emulator list (like we have adb devices to list all android devices/emulator).
Could you please tell me if there is any way to carry out this in windows itself or only Mac is required?

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I am not sure if you can install Xcode on Windows, but there are requirements for automating iOS using Appium:

  • Mac OS X 10.7 or higher, 10.9.2 recommended
  • XCode >= 4.6.3, 5.1.1 recommended
  • Apple Developer Tools (iPhone simulator SDK, command line tools)
  • Ensure you read our documentation on setting yourself up for iOS testing!r iOS testing!

Source: http://appium.io/slate/en/master/?ruby#requirements

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Ok Kirill thanks. I will work it out.