Running appium remotely (A great Challenge)

Rameshwar Juptimath

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Apr 30, 2014, 3:28:08 AM4/30/14

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I have a scenario.

I want to run tests on a machine that has windows operating system and the device on which the test are to be conducted will be connected to a Mac machine.

The test scripts should be mapped to the mac which will have an apple device connected to run the tests.

EX:

I have machine say "Bill" who has windows operating system.

One more machine named "Steve" who has Mac OS X running.

Bill will have the selenium commands.

Bill will not have any appium server running on him.

But Steve will have appium server running on him. Bill and Steve are connected to each other via LAN.

Bill will create a remoteWebDriver and send the commands to Steve who will be having any apple mobile device connected.

Steve should take the Selenese commands from Bill and execute them using appium on a mobile device.

Is this possible?

Patrick L

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Apr 30, 2014, 1:51:10 PM4/30/14

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Why can't you just run appium on the machine with the device and run the tests on there?

I'm using jenkins and it works great. 1 machine to do the builds, my machine to write/debug tests.

Jenkins also lets you connect machines together so you can trigger builds remotely if thats what you are looking for

Isaac Murchie

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Apr 30, 2014, 2:10:12 PM4/30/14

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You can just change the command executor for the tests.

Where you would use something like self.driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', desired_caps) change `localhost` to the address of the machine running the Appium server.

In the tests on "Bill", use

self.driver = webdriver.Remote('http://address_of_steve:4723/wd/hub', desired_caps)

Cheers,

Isaac.

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Rameshwar Juptimath

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Apr 30, 2014, 2:12:03 PM4/30/14

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Thanks for the reply Patrick. Im planning to use Jenkins for reporting.

And the reason I can't run appium on same machine coz I need to write tests on Visual Studio which will not work on MAC. I could use Xamarin on MAC but client requirement is Visual Studio.

Anyways I got the solution.
I should just start appium on MAC with appium ip address as 0.0.0.0 (Which is default) and port 4723.

Then I should use the ip address of the MAC machine on the Windows machine while creating the driver.

like if MAC ip is : 192.162.0.25

my driver creation statement would be:

driver=new RemoteWebDriver(new URI("http://192.162.0.25:4724/wb/hub")), capabilities);

And it is obvious that both Mac and windows machine should be connected via LAN.

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Naveen Kumar

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Jun 4, 2014, 11:29:17 AM6/4/14

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I tried this for two window machines

Machine A:

Has Appium running and android device connected

Machine B:

Has selenium code which has to executed on machine A by code:

driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://<Machine A IP>:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);

However, I am getting below error:

org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.

Build info: version: '2.42.0', revision: '5e824302019c86eae9c8c3ca9155e7307b410cf8', time: '2014-05-24 09:48:41'

System info: host: 'FH3XGZ1', ip: '10.4.3.38', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_51'

Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:590)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:241)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:127)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:154)

at com.saucelabs.appium.RemoteAndroidChromeTest.setUp(RemoteAndroidChromeTest.java:32)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47)

at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)

at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44)

at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:24)

at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunAfters.evaluate(RunAfters.java:27)

at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271)

at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:70)

at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)

at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)

at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)

at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)

at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)

at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)

at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)

at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50)

at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)

at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)

at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)

at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)

at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)

Caused by: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to 10.4.5.242:4723 [/10.4.5.242] failed: Connection timed out: connect

at org.apache.http.impl.conn.HttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(HttpClientConnectionOperator.java:140)

at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:314)

at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:363)

at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:219)

at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:195)

at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:86)

at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:108)

at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:186)

at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:72)

at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:57)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.fallBackExecute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:204)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:173)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:569)

... 28 more

Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect

at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.waitForConnect(Native Method)

at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Unknown Source)

at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)

at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)

at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)

at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)

at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)

at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.http.conn.socket.PlainConnectionSocketFactory.connectSocket(PlainConnectionSocketFactory.java:72)

at org.apache.http.impl.conn.HttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(HttpClientConnectionOperator.java:117)

... 40 more

java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.saucelabs.appium.RemoteAndroidChromeTest.tearDown(RemoteAndroidChromeTest.java:70)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47)

at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)

at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44)

at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunAfters.evaluate(RunAfters.java:33)