.ipa Automation files (ios)

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Hi Chaps,

I have a quick question. I’m testing an app with a team that has never had an automation person before. Although I was hired for automation I’ve spent 99% of my time manual testing. New builds have been sent to me via Testflight on a device.

In the final 2 weeks of month I will a tiny bit of automation.

However, I’ve just found out they DON’T have a way to give me an .ipa file. What can I do as I do need a way to get a version of the app I can add to my desktop. Secondly, they have engaged the services of a ‘consultancy’ and they will will also require .ipa file they can can do automaton testing when I’m gone.

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Best solution make automatic ipa build geenration in same place where building distribution build.

While other solution you can build manually while you need obtain iOS DEV certificate to build against real devices.

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Thanks dude. That’s what I realised after writing this. There’s no way around this. They need to provide an .ipa / .apk file for appium to work at it’s best capacity. Also the can there own directory of .ipa/.apk builds that way they trouble shoot if an issue is based on the app build or the feature under test.

The had suggested using test flight I don’t think that will be suitable. The Dev manager is back on Monday. I will have a chat with him about it. This could have been resolved months ago - not 10 days before I leave!!

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For example in our case we use:

  • Bitrise to generate testFlight build and ipa/apk files.
  • In jenkins job script getting latest build of needed environment and save it locally on macMini
  • After this suite starting with appium tests and taking build from known local folder on macMini
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