How to close a sessin without closing the browser

[Eric]

Hello,

I'm testing real device with Appium and Ruby.

I have a question about session closing.

I want to execute a script on 2 devices.

- Start the browser on device 1

- Go to specific Url

-Start the browser on device 2

-Go to specific Url.

Right now, I have to put "driver.quit" between the 2 sessions because I change the capabilities and I create a new driver. If I don't put "driver.quit" Appium told me that a session is already running.

But when I do "driver.quit", the browser close itself.

Purpose of the test is to display the wbepage on both devices... 

Do you have an idea to close the session without closing the browser ?

Thanks a lot.

My code :

capabilities =

    {

        'deviceName' => 'Galaxy S4',

        'udid' => 'xxxxxx',

        'platformName'=> 'Android',

        'browserName'=> 'Chrome'

    }

#Setup webdrivers to talk to Appium and mobile browser and use implicit_waits to poll with long timeout to see if pages are loaded

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:remote, :desired_capabilities => capabilities, :url => server_url)#, :profile => profile)

browser = Watir::Browser.new driver

browser.driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 30

puts "new ANDROID Watir browser object instantiated"

#automated browser code using Watir browser object and methods

browser.goto "http://myurl.com"

browser.screenshot.save("Galaxy S5.png")

driver.quit

capabilities2 =

    {

        'deviceName' => 'Galaxy S2',

        'udid' => 'dddddd',

        'platformName'=> 'Android',

        'browserName'=> 'Chrome'

    }

#Setup webdrivers to talk to Appium and mobile browser and use implicit_waits to poll with long timeout to see if pages are loaded

driver2 = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:remote, :desired_capabilities => capabilities2, :url => server_url)#, :profile => profile)

browser2 = Watir::Browser.new driver2

browser2.driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 30

puts "new ANDROID Watir browser object instantiated"

#automated browser code using Watir browser object and methods

browser2.goto "http://myurl.com"

browser2.screenshot.save("Galaxy S4.png")

[Eric]

Any help on this ? :)

Thanks

[Eric]

Really, nobody ? :(

[Saimadhu G]

Eric,

Appium do not support running on multiple devices in 1 session.

If you want to execute tests in parallel on multiple devices then open multiple appium sessions.

Thanks

Saimadhu