Selenium grid selects device nodes randomly

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Appium and Selenium Grid with multiple Android versions

Since I could not find any information in documentation anywhere, I ended up looking in the code for Selenium grid, and finally found out what the problem was. When starting the Appium server, you can specify a set of capabilities of this device. When running a test, you specify a set of desired capabilities. The trick here, is that these need to match for 100%, or the Grid server will still randomly distribute jobs to any random available node. In this specific case, I have change my node con…

the capabilities must include: “browserName”, “version”,“platform”, “platformName”, “deviceName”
and the connecting capabilities must be an exact match.