Appium slow on real devices

[Charlie Seligman]

Hi there,

I have been running my tests on the iOS Simulator for a few days and they run at a good speed.  This morning, I switched to run my tests on an iPhone 5 and they are significantly slower (over 1 second per step).

Does anyone know if this is expected or if there is a way of speeding things up?

Cheers,

Charlie

[Henry Stratmann]

I have the same problem: tests run fast on the iOS simulator, tests run slow on the device.

[Satyajit Malugu]

My guess would be without delay works only on an emulator
https://github.com/facebook/instruments-without-delay

Henry Stratmann

June 10, 2013 10:33 AM

I have the same problem: tests run fast on the iOS simulator, tests run slow on the device. --
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[Jonathan Lipps]

That's I believe true, not to mention the extra latency involved in moving data across a wire rather than in memory.

[Jason Carr]

I have noticed that performance is not great with real devices. Something to think about - maybe open a ticket on github for an enhancement to increase performance so we can track effort against this?

Jason

[Mayank Solanki]

Hi Charlie,

Can you please tell us the steps for running the test on physical device? We are currently running our test on iOS Simulator and want to make them work on physical device.

Many thanks.

-Mayank

[Charlie Seligman]

Hi Mayank,

Here are the instructions I have put together.  Hope they help:

Using iOS Real Devices

1. Install app onto iOS Device (using Xcode)
2. Get device UDID (search app store for 'UDID' to get an app that provides this) and get bundleID of app (see app info.plist)
3. Open Appium > Uncheck the 'App Path' checkbox > Check and enter the 'UDID' and 'BundleID' boxes > Press Launch > Press 'i' > This will load the Appium Inspector
4. Make sure you select a device build in App Path and have 'App Path', 'UDID' and 'BundleID' all selected and filled in.

Cheers, Charlie

[Charlie Seligman]

Hi Jason,

I have raised an issue regarding the slow speed: https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/754

Cheers,

Charlie


On Friday, June 7, 2013 12:48:38 PM UTC+1, Charlie Seligman wrote:

[Kishore K]

Hi Charlie,

I understand by post , your using appium and testing on Real ios devices . I'm new to this appium ,so could you please give me some tutorials ,where i can do the install appium on mac to test my ios applications. I have gone through " http://appium.io/ " but as a test engineer , I'm not good at understanding those even I'm interested . Could you please tell me , setups and if possible to screen shot to install the appium for ios mobile application testing .

Thanks in advance ....

Regards,
Kishore

[Dan Cuellar]

The easiest way to get started with Appium is to download the .app for Mac from Download Appium