Test iOS app update with appium

Question

I am planning to test app update through Appium. My requirement is I will have for e.g. app version 1.1 installed and then perform some operation and then without resetting app content I would like have app version 1.2 installed.

Can we achieve this through Appium? Or is there any tool we can use for this update testing?

I tried with starting two sessions with 'noReset' flag, they are working fine because of issue with Appium 1.2.0 but not with Appium latest version 1.3.4.

If I start new session with 'noReset' set to True it's not installing app second time as it is already installed. Is there any way I can override this setting before starting second session so that it will install new version of the app?

Thanks.

I have similar question for Android app testing: Is it possible to test app update using Appium? — Andrius, Feb 12 '15 at 07:13
I didn't managed to achieve this by using Appium, so I did it by using combination of adb commands + mocha, grunt, etc. — Andrius, Feb 19 '15 at 12:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

Maybe one way to do this is to:

Have no application installed in the first place
Use Appium normally to install and prepare your version 1.1 app for update
Update via command line (install app v.1.2 of your app via command line, here is some answer that should work for iOS how to install an ipa/app file into iPhone with command line?)
Use Appium with the no-reset flag to just start your app (now v.1.2) and check that everything is fine.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '15 at 18:21

This depends on what you're using for testing. If you're using cucumber as I am, your folder structure should look something like:

|features
    |>step_definitions
    |>support
        |>env.rb
    |appium.txt

The env.rb file looks like:

class AppiumWorld; end

appium_txt = File.join(Dir.pwd, 'appium.txt')
caps = Appium.load_appium_txt file: appium_txt
Appium::Driver.new(caps)
Appium.promote_appium_methods [AppiumWorld]
Appium.promote_singleton_appium_methods [Base]

World do
  AppiumWorld.new
end

Before do |scenario|
  $driver.start_driver
end

After do |scenario|
  $driver.driver_quit
end

The appium.txt file looks like

[caps]
appiumVersion = "1.3.4"
deviceName = "iPhone Simulator"
device-orientation = "portrait"
platformVersion = "8.1"
platformName = "iOS"
browserName = ""
app = "Absolute path to your app which you can point at any version"
name = "Test again"


[appium_lib]
sauce_username = ""
sauce_access_key = ""

The gemfile includes:

gem 'sauce-cucumber', require: false
gem 'selenium-webdriver'
gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.19'
gem 'appium_console', '~> 1.0.3'
gem 'appium_lib', '~> 6.0.0'

I would look at the tutorials for sauce-cucumber, that was an integral resource. Also, this is a ruby solution, but you can probably translate it as needed.

Test iOS app update with appium

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