Appium and iOS Mobile Safari, can this be done?

Question

I can’t get any automation working with Appium against the Safari mobile browser on the iOS emulator. In my Java project, Safari will start, but the browser will not even go to the specified website. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong with my code?

1) Launch the Appium app on my OSX machine. It is configured with the following settings:

IP Address: 127.0.0.1 Port: 4723 Force Device: Checked - iPhone User Mobile Safari: Checked 

(Note: when starting my project, no messages are viewed on the Appium application log screen. I used to have complaints about the missing iOS 6.0 library, but when I duplicated the iOS 6.1 library and then renamed it 6.0, the messages were gone.)

2) Launch Eclipse and open the Appium Project

3) Right-click the test code and select "RunAs Junit"

4) iPhone emulator launches - iPhone iOS 6.1

5) Mobile Safari launches ... and then it doesn't go anywhere (should go to cnn.com). I get no errors.

Can I use Appium Java projects to automate Mobile-Safari? I don't see Safari automation examples in the Appium example code repository.

What gives?

Thanks,

Larry

------------------ Java code below -------------------------- - ------------

Eclipse Juno is used to run my Java / Appium project. Here's a simplified text of the Java JUnit project code (which, when modified appropriately and used with iWebDriver and outdated iPhoneDriver (), works great):

 import org.junit.Before; import org.junit.After; import org.junit.Test; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities; import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver; public class AppiumiPhoneWebDriverDemo { private String baseUrl; private WebDriver driver; @Before public void setup() throws Exception { WebDriver driver; DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities(); //cap.setCapability("", ""); //cap.setCapability("browsername", ""); //cap.setCapability("os", "iOS 6.1"); cap.setCapability("device", "iPhone Simulator"); cap.setCapability("app", "safari"); driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), cap); baseUrl = "http://www.cnn.com"; } @After public void tearDown() throws Exception { driver.quit(); } @Test public void test_searchWorks() throws Exception { this.driver.get(baseUrl); driver.quit(); } } 

Answer 1

Can you do this.

See this code

 "use strict"; require("./helpers/setup"); var wd = require("wd"), _ = require('underscore'), serverConfigs = require('./helpers/appium-servers'); describe("ios safari", function () { this.timeout(300000); var driver; var allPassed = true; before(function () { var serverConfig = process.env.SAUCE ? serverConfigs.sauce : serverConfigs.local; driver = wd.promiseChainRemote(serverConfig); require("./helpers/logging").configure(driver); var desired = _.clone(require("./helpers/caps").ios81); desired.browserName = 'safari'; if (process.env.SAUCE) { desired.name = 'ios - safari'; desired.tags = ['sample']; } return driver.init(desired); }); after(function () { return driver .quit() .finally(function () { if (process.env.SAUCE) { return driver.sauceJobStatus(allPassed); } }); }); afterEach(function () { allPassed = allPassed && this.currentTest.state === 'passed'; }); it("should get the url", function () { return driver .get('https://www.google.com') .sleep(1000) .waitForElementByName('q', 5000) .sendKeys('sauce labs') .sendKeys(wd.SPECIAL_KEYS.Return) .sleep(1000) .title().should.eventually.include('sauce labs'); }); it("should delete cookie passing domain and path", function () { var complexCookieDelete = function(name, path, domain) { return function() { path = path || '|'; return driver.setCookie({name: name, value: '', path: path, domain: domain, expiry: 0}); }; }; return driver .get('http://en.wikipedia.org') .waitForElementByCss('.mediawiki', 5000) .allCookies() // 'GeoIP' cookie is there .deleteCookie('GeoIP') .allCookies() // 'GeoIP' is still there, because it is set on // the .wikipedia.org domain .then(complexCookieDelete('GeoIP', '/', '.wikipedia.org')) .allCookies() // now 'GeoIP' cookie is gone .sleep(1000); }); }); 

Answer 2

Why are you defining a second WebDriver in your setUp method? Remove this second definition to configure the class member driver.

Answer 3

  DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities(); //cap.setCapability("", ""); //cap.setCapability("browsername", ""); //cap.setCapability("os", "iOS 6.1"); cap.setCapability("device", "iPhone Simulator"); cap.setCapability("app", "safari"); 

it should be

  DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities(); cap.setCapability("deviceName", "iPhone Simulator"); cap.setCapability("browsername", "safari"); cap.setCapability("platformVersion", "7.1"); cap.setCapability("platformName", "iOS"); 

This works for me. Hope this fix your problem. Good luck.

Answer 4

Assuming you're using Java on a Mac, something works for me here, including code to start the Appium Service itself, then a driver to connect to it:

 package baseTest; import com.groupon.tests.mainapp.pages.*; import io.appium.java_client.ios.IOSDriver; import io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumDriverLocalService; import io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumServiceBuilder; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities; import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass; import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass; import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.net.URL; public class AppiumSafariBaseUITest { private WebDriver wd; protected WebDriver getDriver(){ return wd; } String nodePath = "/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node"; String appiumJSPath = "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js"; AppiumDriverLocalService service; String service_url; private void startAppiumServer() throws IOException { service = AppiumDriverLocalService.buildService(new AppiumServiceBuilder() .usingPort(4890) .usingDriverExecutable(new File(nodePath)) .withAppiumJS(new File(appiumJSPath)) ); service.start(); } @BeforeClass(alwaysRun = true) public void setUpAppiumDriver() throws IOException { startAppiumServer(); service_url = service.getUrl().toString(); DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities(); capabilities.setCapability("appium-version", "1.0"); capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "iOS"); capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "9.3"); capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "iPhone 5s"); capabilities.setCapability("newCommandTimeout", 600); capabilities.setCapability("bundleId", "com.apple.mobilesafari"); capabilities.setCapability("useLocationServices", false); wd = new IOSDriver(new URL(service_url), capabilities); } @BeforeMethod(alwaysRun = true) public void beforeMethod(){ if(!service.isRunning()) { service.start(); } } @AfterClass(alwaysRun = true) public void killSimulatorAndAppium(){ service.stop(); } }