Appium - Command line

Question

Team,

Can you please guide me or point me some tutorials to run Appium through command line? I see lot of issues with Appium.app on MAC. It would be great, if you can share your knowledge or materials for me to move forward to run a sample application with appium through command line. Please refer my settings in appium.app for your reference.

Appium - Not able to launch the inspector

Logs:

info: [debug] Responding to client with success: {"status":0,"value":{"build":{"version":"1.2.2","revision":"cf6ff5939ddc6b4d45fcbabfbfe13c950e0058c4"}}}
info: <-- GET /wd/hub/status 200 1.335 ms - 104 {"status":0,"value":{"build":{"version":"1.2.2","revision":"cf6ff5939ddc6b4d45fcbabfbfe13c950e0058c4"}}}
info: --> GET /wd/hub/sessions {}
info: [debug] Responding to client with success: {"status":0,"value":[]}
info: <-- GET /wd/hub/sessions 200 2.145 ms - 23 {"status":0,"value":[]}
info: --> POST /wd/hub/session {"desiredCapabilities":{"platformName":"iOS","platformVersion":"7.1","newCommandTimeout":"999999","automationName":"Appium","deviceName":"iPhone Simulator"}}
info: [debug] Using local app from command line: /Users/rsangili/Desktop/temp/Payload/TestApp2.app
info: [debug] Creating new appium session dd2c8121-6a13-48be-8a0b-9fc6233437a5
info: [debug] Removing any remaining instruments sockets
info: [debug] Cleaned up instruments socket /tmp/instruments_sock
info: [debug] Setting Xcode folder
info: [debug] Setting Xcode version
info: [debug] Setting iOS SDK Version
info: [debug] iOS SDK Version set to 7.1
info: [debug] Detecting automation tracetemplate
info: [debug] Not auto-detecting udid, running on sim
error: Could not parse plist file (as binary) at /Users/rsangili/Desktop/temp/Payload/TestApp2.app/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
info: Will try to parse the plist file as XML
error: Could not parse plist file (as XML) at /Users/rsangili/Desktop/temp/Payload/TestApp2.app/en.lproj/Localizable.strings
warn: Could not parse app Localizable.strings
info: [debug] Not setting locale
info: [debug] Creating instruments
info: [debug] Preparing uiauto bootstrap
info: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap dir:
info: [debug] Dynamic env:
info: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap code:
info: [debug] Dynamic bootstrap path:
info: [debug] Reusing dynamic bootstrap:
info: [debug] Fixing device was changed from:"
info: [debug] No iOS / app preferences to set
info: [debug] Starting iOS 7.* simulator log capture
info: [debug] Killing the simulator process
info: [debug] Killing any other simulator daemons
info: [debug] Checking whether instruments supports our device string
info: [debug] Getting list of devices instruments supports
info: [debug] Instruments is at: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/instruments
info: [debug] Fixing device was changed from:"
info: [debug] Cleaning up appium session
error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: Command failed: 
info: [debug] Error: Command failed: 
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:648:15)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:756:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:823:5)
info: [debug] Responding to client with error: {"status":33,"value":{"message":"A new session could not be created. (Original error: Command failed: )","killed":true,"code":null,"signal":"SIGTERM","origValue":"Command failed: "},"sessionId":null}
info: <-- POST /wd/hub/session 500 6381.780 ms - 199 

Thanks, Ramesh

Answer 1

Using Appium from Command Line

Installation

1. Open a terminal session
2. Install homebrew (instructions)
3. Run the below commands

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 $ brew install node # install node and npm
 $ npm install -g appium # globally install appium
 $ npm install wd
 $ appium # Launch your appium server!

Usage

Whenever you want to begin an appium server session, type appium to run the server.

Arguments can be added to that command.

appium --app path/to/app --device-name "iPhone Simulator"

Using Appium.app inspector with server

In my development env setup, I don't use the Appium.app server, but I DO use the inspector.

1. Start your Appium server with the --app and --device-name arguments
2. Click on the Appium.app inspector icon
3. The iPhone Simulator will launch, and may give you an authorization prompt for Instruments to control it