Reset iOS device between tests?

[Simon Howlett]

dumb question.. is there a way i can reset simulator state at the end of each test in python, i close down the session, but values from the test are cached it appears?

[bootstrap online]

Have you tried mobile: reset?

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[Simon Howlett]

i suspect i am missing something, i have 

self.driver.execute_script("mobile: reset") in tear down, which appears to reopen the app and the close out. though it doesn't reset/uninstall

[bootstrap online]

Are you using the latest version of Appium? By default reset should be
enabled and on iOS that clears the simulator plist files associated
with the app under test. If reset is disabled then mobile: reset won't
reset the app.

https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/bdaf4192a6166201bd84fb543c8e7c840e521c38/app/ios.js#L333

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Simon Howlett

[Simon Howlett]

latest version, yep. pulled down and built today. i'll do some digging ;)

[Leslie Chong]

Did you ever figure this out? I'm trying to do the same thing and not having luck.

I start the appium server with no params (since it sounds like allowing reset is allowed by default), and then tried adding self.driver.execute_script("mobile: reset") to the teardown. I see the command is received in the appium server log:

debug: Request received with params: {"script":"mobile: reset","args":[]}

but it doesn't actually reset mobile. The next test starts the app with the old app data.

Thank you!

[bootstrap online]

mobile reset works on the iOS simulator and Android emulator/physical
devices. For physical iOS devices, it's not implemented yet.

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[Roberto Bertini Renzetti]

Another possibly dumb question: to what extent does the "mobile: reset" actually reset?

I'm testing an app that does an "In-App Purchase" and I want to make sure that the simulator does not have an user "signed-up" already so that every time I run the test I get the same alert dialogs from the system after a purchase.

I can reset the iOS simulator from its UI (iOS Simulator->Reset Contents and Settings...) to achieve that but it seems to me that if I do a "mobile: reset" on the teardown the next time I run the test it still remembers the user sign in from a previous session...

Is there another "mobile: ...." command that can sign out the user? I could run this command before running my tests :-)

Thanks
Roberto

[bootstrap online]

On the iOS simulator, it only deletes the plist file for your app.
That's enough to sign me out of the app I test on. Maybe your app will
require even more files to be deleted?

[Alex Arkanov]

are there any plans to implement the reset option for iOS physical devices in the near future?

Thank you,

[bootstrap online]

The solution for physical devices is to automatically
uninstall/install the app each time. I don't know of any other way. I
think this is already supported in appium via fruitstrap, however I
haven't tested it.

[Brent LaVelle]

I found that logging out and calling the quit method on my driver (Selenium::WebDriver) instance when tests finished worked more than 90% of the time.  I now run this shell command: adb shell am force-stop com.vacationrentals.homeaway

seems to work all of the time.  The app being tested is com.vacationrentals.homeaway

[bootstrap online]

On Android it's easy because the adb commands work on real devices in
addition to the emulator. iOS physical devices aren't so fortunate.

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