Appium and .ipa files?

[Vic Wong]

We (and I imagine many developers) distribute our builds using testflight and jenkins, which builds the app into ipa files. Has anyone successfully used appium with an ipa file?

I've been experimenting with this, you can unarchive an ipa file into a directory labeled "Payload" that contains the .app archive. However, when I point my app to it, it fails with the error below.

It works when I build the app myself in xcode, but I'm hoping to avoid that since we've already got a build system in place.

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error: Instruments socket client never checked in; timing out

info: Instruments exited with code 1 and trace dir undefined

error: Instruments socket client never checked in; timing out

info: Instruments exited with code 1 and trace dir undefined

debug: Appium request initiated at /wd/hub/session

debug: Request received with params: {"desiredCapabilities":{"platform":"Mac","app":"/Users/vic/Downloads/Payload-1/testapp.app","browserName":"iOS","version":"6.0"}}

info: Using local app from desiredCaps: /Users/vic/Downloads/Payload-1/testapp.app

info: Creating new appium session 6767149a-5d6a-4ae3-9d5e-a4a9c39432ff

info: Cleaned up instruments socket /tmp/instruments_sock

info: Forcing use of iphone

info: Parsed app Info.plist

info: Wrote new app Info.plist with device type

info: instruments is: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/instruments

info: [INSTSERVER] Instruments socket server started at /tmp/instruments_sock

info: Spawning instruments with command: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/instruments -t /Users/vic/appium/app/uiauto/Automation.tracetemplate /Users/vic/Downloads/Payload-1/testapp.app -e UIASCRIPT /Users/vic/appium/app/uiauto/bootstrap.js -e UIARESULTSPATH /tmp/7fa656c5-0e71-4f99-86b5-45f04ac8551d

info: And extra without-delay env: {}

info: [INST STDERR] posix spawn failure; aborting launch (binary == /Users/vic/Downloads/Payload-1/testapp.app/testapp).

info: [INST STDERR] 2013-05-02 12:21:00.226 instruments[14101:1603] Recording cancelled : At least one target failed to launch; aborting run

Instruments Trace Error : Failed to start trace.

info: [INSTSERVER] Instruments exited with code 253

error: Instruments did not launch successfully, failing session

error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Instruments did not launch successfully--please check your app paths or bundle IDs and try again

info: Responding to client with error: {"status":6,"value":{"message":"A session is either terminated or not started","origValue":"Instruments did not launch successfully--please check your app paths or bundle IDs and try again"},"sessionId":"6767149a-5d6a-4ae3-9d5e-a4a9c39432ff"}

POST /wd/hub/session 500 341ms - 270

info: Clearing out appium devices

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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Vic Wong <vic...@gmail.com> wrote:

We (and I imagine many developers) distribute our builds using testflight and jenkins, which builds the app into ipa files. Has anyone successfully used appium with an ipa file?

I tried and the ipa file won't work on the simulator. My solution was to setup a new target in Jenkins that created the appropriate build.

[Ritika Mishra]

Hi,

Did anyone find a solution to this problem? I too have a .ipa and need to automate it.

Thanks,

Ritika

[Sergio Neves Barros]

Try changing the extension from .ipa to .zip and then extracting it.

It will generate a the payload folder with an .app file in there, but you should be able to install that one.

Sergio

[Jonathan Lipps]

There's an --ipa flag you can use to start the server with instead of --app

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[HungNguyen]

Hi  Jonathan Lipps,

Could you please tell me how I spawn instrument command with specific result path when running Appium?

Notes: I used MAC machine.

Thanks.

[Jonathan Lipps]

Sorry Hung, I'm not sure what you mean by "spawn instrument command with specific result path". Can you clarify?

[HungNguyen]

Hi Jonathan,

I'm using Xamarin Studio, C#, Selenium WebDriver RC, Appium to do automation for IOS native app on MAC machine.

The bellows are my steps to do automation:

1. Start appium server from Terminal

2. Back to Xamarin Studio to run automation script

3. When the scrip is running, I see in Terminal has generated information as follows: 

info: Spawning instruments with command: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/instruments -t /usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/app/uiauto/Automation.tracetemplate 

-w fc8ee197cba7ee8f6ae64077406e9d719efb70ea com.spiraledge.swim 

-e UIASCRIPT /usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/app/uiauto/bootstrap.js 

-e UIARESULTSPATH /tmp/c373f6f6-cbc9-42b7-987a-932d7162c491

I realized that Appium generate command line to call UI Automation Instrument of XCode. 

Then, the result file is in /tmp folder.

The problem here is that the result is not genated pass or fail result as UI automation of XCode does, It does not generate snapshot when failing. Additionally, we can not control where the result file is generated.

Does appium does not support or I miss any step to do this? 

Could you please support me this, Jonathan?

Thanks.

[Jonathan Lipps]

Pass/fail is to be determined by your selenium script, just like other selenium tests. 

The instruments tracedir is dumped into appium's directory so you can look at it after a test run if you pass the --keep-artifacts flag to the appium server.

[Ling-Yi Kung]

Do you have to use the --ipa flag to start the server? I tried running the server with no arguments, then running a test with 'ipa' => /path/to/ipa/file and it gave me the error that no app was set.

My problem is that my Jenkins build creates an .ipa file. Even when I rename it to .zip, unzip it, then pass in the .app, it gives me the same error that Vic was having:

debug: Appium request initiated at /wd/hub/session

debug: Request received with params: {"desiredCapabilities":{"browserName":"iOS","platform":"Mac","version":"6.1","app":"/Users/lkung/workspace/appium-ios-test/./Foo.app"}}

info: Using local app from desiredCaps: /Users/lkung/workspace/appium-ios-test/./Foo.app

info: Creating new appium session a76623f3-6d26-4b69-82eb-635d64d56417

info: Cleaned up instruments socket /tmp/instruments_sock

info: Forcing use of iphone

info: Parsed app Info.plist

info: Wrote new app Info.plist with device type

debug: No device id or app, not installing to real device.

debug: Creating instruments

info: instruments is: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/instruments

info: [INSTSERVER] Instruments socket server started at /tmp/instruments_sock

info: Spawning instruments with command: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/instruments -t /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/appium/app/uiauto/Automation.tracetemplate /Users/lkung/workspace/appium-ios-test/./Foo.app -e UIASCRIPT /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/appium/app/uiauto/bootstrap.js -e UIARESULTSPATH /tmp/12efe519-b4f5-4afe-8f4b-ff03a6287eae

info: And extra without-delay env: {"DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES":"/usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/appium/build/iwd/InstrumentsShim.dylib","LIB_PATH":"/usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/appium/build/iwd"}

info: [INST STDERR] posix spawn failure; aborting launch (binary == /Users/lkung/workspace/appium-ios-test/Foo.app/Foo).

info: [INST STDERR] 2013-07-17 23:38:46.653 instruments[40516:707] Recording cancelled : At least one target failed to launch; aborting run

Instruments Trace Error : Failed to start trace.

info: [INSTSERVER] Instruments exited with code 253

error: Instruments did not launch successfully, failing session

error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Instruments did not launch successfully--please check your app paths or bundle IDs and try again

info: Responding to client with error: {"status":6,"value":{"message":"A session is either terminated or not started","origValue":"Instruments did not launch succ\

essfully--please check your app paths or bundle IDs and try again"},"sessionId":"a76623f3-6d26-4b69-82eb-635d64d56417"}

POST /wd/hub/session 500 1201ms - 270

info: Clearing out appium devices

The .ipa file I get is the release version of the app. Should it instead be the debug version? I'm confused because Instruments cannot detect the unzipped .app, either.

[Jonathan Lipps]

If you're trying to run on the simulator it needs to be a version built for the simulator, which is often the debug version?

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[Ling-Yi Kung]

Ah, yes, I believe this is the issue. I've tried running both the ad hoc and appstore versions of the .app in the Simulator and they won't work. The ad hoc version has a device UDID whitelist. I'm not sure why the appstore version doesn't work, but it could be because it's compiled for devices. An .app has to be compiled for the Simulator separately.

Thanks!

[Aleksei Mordas]

Guys, so do you find a solution to run ipa files on real devices?

Regards, Aleksei

четверг, 2 мая 2013 г., 21:27:50 UTC+2 пользователь Vic Wong написал:

[Nitika Gupta]

Hi All,

Can anyone please confirm if there is any solution to run .ipa files on real device.

[Aniket Gadre]

ipa signed with distribution cert doesn't work, you need to use a developer certificate 

Best Regards,

Aniket Gadre

 

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