Here is my setup :
OS X El Capitan
Eclipse neon with TestNG & Appium java client
Appium.app 1.5.3
iOS Simulator
In the app i want to test (i’m not the developper, i was given a x86 build for testing), i need to open a login form which pops up above the current view.
As soon as i want to locate an element, the form closes so i can’t interact with it.
I have the same issue when using the inspector. As soon as I hit refresh, the form closes.
You don’t say the Xcode version but I suspect that with El Capitan you are probably on Xcode 8, which is not supported with Appium 1.5.3. Updating to 1.6.4 would be the best advice given the data supplied and the unexpected behavior.
When i use Appium 1.6.4 (Appium desktop 1.0.0), it fails at opening my app and constantly open a new instance of Appium so i can’t use it for now.
With the behaviors i face with Appium desktop, i can’t take the risk to update to Xcode 8 if Appium 1.5.3 is not supported anymore since they are other test that are in production right now on a regular basis.