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Py + iOS + FFMPEG(libx264) "height not divisible by 2" & "while opening encoder - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height"

Background : I have automated test suite in which I am trying to record video [for failed tests]on iOS using MacOS with M1 Its working as expected on local and observing failures while running tests ...
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Python + Appium : ios video recording is creating zero byte videos

Background : I am trying to record video on iOS using MacOS with M1. Problem : I am able to record video but after saving I can see video size is "Zero byte". I have not seen any error so ...
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"“photos.db” couldn’t be copied because you don’t have permission to access while Integrating python osxphotos lib

Problem : Background : I am trying to access internal storage and photos using python from iOS real device or simulators & occur failure in a process because you don’t have permission to access ...
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fatal error: 'libheif/heif.h' file not found occur while Installing via pip on mac

Problem : fatal error: 'libheif/heif.h' file not found occur while Installing via pip on mac I was trying to install specific module using pip, In order to integrate & use in my automation ...
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Error "groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: simctl for class: groovy.lang.Binding" observed while executing from Jenkins piepline

Team, I am facing below error while executing Jenkins pipeline : groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: simctl for class: groovy.lang.Binding I have checked and confirmed, The cmd ...
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Appium + iOS automation : Error "Could not write domain com.apple.keyboard.preferences; exiting"

Team, Everything was working and suddenly I observed all the tests started failing :( with following error : Could not write domain com.apple.keyboard.preferences; exiting What all I have tried : ...
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Appium+Python: Screenshot for failed step in iOS :HOOK-ERROR in after_step: TypeError: after_step() missing 1 required positional argument: 'scenario'

I am trying to capture screenshot on iOS device when any of my test gets failed. Problem statement : How to get behave scenario inside the after_step() method Observed error : HOOK-ERROR in ...
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Appium server GUI returned error "No route found for /session" & Appium inspector "Failed to create session. The requested resource could not be found

Error occur while launching the application using appium server gui with following Environment : Appium server GUI[1.22.3] Appium inspector [2022.5.4] Capability set as follows : { "appium:...
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unable to test iOS application in kobiton

We are using Kobiton paid subscription to test android and iOS applications. While testing iOS application, asking a password for an Apple account. How can I proceed with the testing on iOS devices?
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How do you test ios apps (ipa file) in any cloud based tool like browserstack or cloud.bitbar?

We are trying to test our iOS app on cloud based tools (like browserstack or cloud.bitbar), but we aren't able to start the app there. It's uploaded, started, launch the initial screen and then just ...
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Getting an error when switching to iFrame on iOS Safari mobile browser with appium

Original error when I'm trying switch to iframe. Same code working fine with desktop browsers. This happens only with safari mobile browser. I'm on appium v1.20.2 SecurityError: Blocked a frame with ...
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Can not decrypt HTTPS traffic on my iOS 14 device

I have 2 devices with iOS 12 and 14. Both of them are configured the same way: Certificate is downloaded from http://ipv4.fiddler:8866/ Certificate is installed from Settings > Profile Downloaded ...
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Scrolling an element into view with iOS native app

I am using Appium + Selenium + Java. I am testing a native app and I sometimes need to scroll an element into view in order to click on it. It seems like, when testing a web app on iOS, you can use ...
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App Elements not rendering/inspect in IOS using appium and Xcui Automation testing

Currently working in a automation project. Element tag was not rendered. though i check some random element, I'm getting the message of element is not intractable. But in Ipad I can see the input text ...
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iOS Automation Testing on AWS

Background: I have been searching how can I install an .ipa programmatically on a real iPhone, and all answers are "it's not possible". So I was wondering, iOS automation cannot be ...
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Is paid Apple Developer Account needed to run Selenium Appium Automation tests on real apple devices like iPhone or iPads?

So I am working on a project which comprises of the software web application, built on Python 3.7. Currently, it supports pc and mac platforms only with various browsers, and we have automated it ...
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Multiple iOS Regional Apps, Same Codebase. How to handle regions that aren't due for release

I'm wondering if anyone could help me with a strategy to ensure correct coverage for upcoming releases. A little about our setup... We have multiple iOS apps released across different European ...
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With appium which language will be compatible when application is built on dot net?

My application is built on dot net and I want to automate the application using Appium tool. I am not able to decide which language should I use with Appium to automate this app. Considering this is a ...
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How to install and test IPA file in Windows machine if I don't have real iPhone device [duplicate]

I want to test IPA file(iOS app) but I don't have real iOS device, only I have IPA file. How can I test it from my windows machine, by using some third party tool like Simulator?
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Appium: How to resolve Class cast exception for iOS driver? "java.lang.ClassCastException"

I referred to one of the answers posted in this forum and when I attempted to run following code NetworkConnection mobileDriver = (NetworkConnection) appiumDriver; if (mobileDriver....
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Appium 1.10.0 + iOS : Unable to accept permission alert

Team, I am facing issues to accept the permission on iOS using Appium. I have tried below options: capabilities.SetCapability("autoAcceptAlerts", true); driver.switch_to_alert() driver.findElement(...
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How do you record a jmeter script/create a jmeter test plan for a ssl mobile app? Internet won't connect after setting manual proxy

I can't record a script in Jmeter or Blazemeter to test a mobile app. After setting up the manual proxy, started the recording script in jmeter, installed the ca certificate on the ipad, my ipad ...
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How can you send idevicediagnostics restart -u command in appium to restart an ios device?

How can you send idevicediagnostics restart -u command in appium to restart an ios device? I can send this via the terminal manually, but I would like appium to trigger it during the end of each test ...
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Appium tests fails until rebooting IOS devices or appium tests fails due to webdriveragent getting uninstalled by itself- Any solutions?

My appium tests are passing before I checked it in and after I checked in the Jenkins code. However, after a few runs the appium tests starts failing and can't install the app on the ios devices. A ...
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How to click on an iOS MobileElement (button) whose attribute "name" is dynamically generated on the run using Xpath?

Below is the XPath- //XCUIElementTypeButton[@name="8/13"] The numeric value in the above XPath changes and is not static. There are more then 10 buttons on the screen, I want to click on the first ...
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Testing ideas for video recording feature

We recently implemented a video recording feature to our application. Its specs are: Video should be available to all iOS users Video should be available on both iPad and iPhone A user can record and ...
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Differences between Android emulators / iOS simulator and real devices for mobile web testing

Are there any differences for mobile web (not native App, not hybrid) testing between emulators/simulators and real devices? There are different 3rd party sites under test that contain our custom in-...
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How to clear text field in Appium 1.8.0?

Using appium 1.7.2, my test ran correctly and never had any issue with clearing text field with element.clear. but now since i upgrade my appium to 1.8.0 element.clear seems to stop working. it didn't ...
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Unable to run protractor test in browserstack on ios device

I am trying to run protractor test(ios-11, iPhoneX)in browserstack. I am getting "Error: Error while running testForAngular: Unable to communicate to node" error and some time I am getting the error ...
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How to write test cases of an application which has almost same functionalities on its web and mobile app(ios + android)

I am currently testing a chat application which is for both web and mobile devices. I have created test cases of a module for web application in Zephyr for Jira. Now I am a bit confused. Should I ...
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iOS manual testing on Testdroid

I just wanted to know if I can do manual testing of iOS (.ipa) app on Tesdroid. As in upload the .ipa and install it on a cloud iPhone to perform manual testing?
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Real time map testing in apple device

I have a driving school application to test which somewhat works like Uber. My question is how can I test the real time map in my ios application? User will provide the Start and End point but how to ...
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Testing our native app on iOS Beta releases

We develop 3 apps in total, all on iOS and I'm running into serious time issues regarding the iOS Beta Releases (current release is iOS 11.2.5 Beta 2). We want to perform a full regression on all our ...
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How can I test iOS & Android mobile applications using Microsoft Visual Studio?

Here I have some test cases on Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), and those test case I have to execute on a real iPhone device but when I use Run & Record test of MTM to execute test cases its record ...
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Automation tool for mobile application(IOS and Android)

Which testing tools are currently used for mobile application testing for both IOS application or Android application? What skills are required for mobile application testing automation?
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iOS Mobile App Testing on Windows

I am taking my first dive into testing a mobile app. It will be available to iOS and Android. I've been searching for a way to test and automate iOS without having an actual iPhone or any other Mac ...
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Drop-down not working with safariDriver on Safari 10

Getting below error while accessing drop-down Using Safari 10 mac sierra with apple `safariDriver` Selenium Version 3.0.1 org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: An unknown server-side error ...
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What are my options in testing iOS devices, for free?

I am very new to ios automation test and I plan to use Appium and selenium grid for parallel tests. according to apple, when testing it in a real device i have to have a developer id which costs 99 ...
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What test frameworks can I use against a SPA based mobile application?

A client has native single page applications, apparently written in Clojure running on ios and android. I'm used to writing user-acceptance testing with Selenium and the ruby bindings present in ...
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How to resolve "Original error: Unable to launch WebDriverAgent because of xcodebuild failure: xcodebuild failed with code 65"? [closed]

Environment: iOS version : 10.2.1 Mac iOS Version : 10.12 [macOS Sierra] Appium : 1.1.0-beta.2 Question: Background : I am trying to automate iOS app. I followed process to setup required for iOS ...
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Appium 1.4.13 How to resolve error: Could not detect Mac OS X Version from sw_vers output: '10.12 ']?

Environment : macOS Sierra, Appium version 1.4.13 (Draco) I am not able run appium. Please help, How to fixed this issue? appium doctor has not worked. Error : info AppiumDoctor ### Diagnostic ...
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How do you manage and coordinate Android and iOS platform releases?

In the context of managing and coordinating iOS and Android platform releases (for native apps): What platform specific tasks would be included in pre and post release checklists? What would be ...
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Should we separate Android and iOS apps on different jira projects?

I've got a scenario. In my company, we used Jira as our tracking tool. Now, we have developed this mobile app which runs both on iOS and Android. We have decided to implement the iOS first. So, in our ...
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How to continuously build and release IPA files for testing

In my project I have to build an IPA file ASAP after developer committed the changes to TFS and then I have to test the IPA file which I have built. To do that I have to build the project by "Ionic ...
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Unable to see Settings & Administrator tab on SonarQube dashboard

Environment - Mac I have configured SonarQube earlier, after that various other configuration might removed my admin user or something happen. But today I am not able to access my admin account/user. ...
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Better way to distribute releases [closed]

I make the APK and IPA build for the weekly releases and I upload them to dropbox and send the link to the customer. Is there any other better-automated way to share the final IPA / APK file with the ...
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How to get iOS App crash logs from Windows machine [closed]

I am working as a manual tester from past 2 years(mostly worked on web applications) in one of the software testing company and now I have just started functional testing on mobile devices. My App on ...
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Running Appium test on a MAC with c#

Im little bit good at c# and not at JAVA , So is there any way to write Appium scripts on a MAC using c# ? My target is to make some automation scripts to test an android and iOS build which ...
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Security testing tools for android and ios apps [closed]

What are the available security testing tools for Android and iOS apps? Mainly for a passive scan for known vulnerabilities.
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Setting appium to run test on iOS device

Please help me for my setting in appium, I cant launch and display appium inspector on ios, but my setting for android already working and fine use macOS- Sierra appium 1.5.3 iphone iOS 10.2 ...
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