appium: bug: xcode 15.0.1 - WDA is not reused instead it is rebuilded all the time

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I use the most recent available driver/plugin and server versions

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Current Behavior

While starting the tests, the WDA is always rebuilded regadless there is a WDA on the simulator which was running before.

Launching WebDriverAgent on the device 2023-11-21 09:41:03:072 - [XCUITestDriver@c62f (f7563732)] Cleaning up the WebDriverAgent project after the module upgrade has happened (5.0.0 < 5.14.0) 2023-11-21 09:41:03:073 - [XCUITestDriver@c62f (f7563732)] Cleaning the project scheme ‘WebDriverAgentLib’ to make sure there are no leftovers from previous

Expected Behavior

The behavior while using xcode 14.2 was that once the simulator had a WDA installed and running, i could use it all day long without rebuilding it.

Minimal Reproducible Example

starting with useNewWDA=false

Environment

Operating system: Sonoma 14.1.1
Appium server version (output of appium --version): 2.2.2
Appium driver(s) and their version(s): XCUITESTdriver 5.9.1
Appium plugin(s) and their version(s): images 2.1.7
Node.js version (output of node --version): 16.19.1
npm version (output of npm --version): 8.19.3
Last component(s) version which did not exhibit the problem:
Platform and version under test: iOS 16.4 (with xcode 15 Simulator)
Real device or emulator/simulator: Simulator

Link to Appium Logs

https://gist.github.com/RSM-SBA/b7ad356f2ad4dc232164191877fd8b19

Further Information

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About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 months ago
Comments: 23 (2 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

fix: avoid WDA shutdown when running mobile: configureLocalization script ref: https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/19440#issuecomment-1823461012 — committed to mwakizaka/appium-xcuitest-driver by mwakizaka 7 months ago
fix: avoid WDA shutdown when running mobile: configureLocalization script ref: https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/19440#issuecomment-1823461012 — committed to mwakizaka/appium-xcuitest-driver by mwakizaka 7 months ago
fix: avoid WDA shutdown when running mobile: configureLocalization script ref: https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/19440#issuecomment-1823461012 — committed to mwakizaka/appium-xcuitest-driver by mwakizaka 7 months ago
fix: avoid WDA shutdown when running mobile: configureLocalization script ref: https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/19440#issuecomment-1823461012 — committed to mwakizaka/appium-xcuitest-driver by mwakizaka 7 months ago
fix: avoid WDA shutdown when running mobile: configureLocalization script ref: https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/19440#issuecomment-1823461012 — committed to mwakizaka/appium-xcuitest-driver by mwakizaka 7 months ago
feat: use skipSyncUiDialogTranslation option for localization on simulators (#2276) * feat: add skipSyncUiDialogTranslation for initializing simulator * fix: avoid WDA shutdown when running mobile... — committed to appium/appium-xcuitest-driver by mwakizaka 7 months ago
chore(release): 5.12.0 [skip ci] ## [5.12.0](https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/compare/v5.11.8...v5.12.0) (2023-12-06) ### Features * use skipSyncUiDialogTranslation option for local... — committed to appium/appium-xcuitest-driver by semantic-release-bot 7 months ago

Most upvoted comments

@mykola-mokhnach ok removing the locale “fixed” the problem… Strange that it is only a problem when reusing the WDA and not all the time.

Then I probably know what the issue might be: https://github.com/appium/appium-ios-simulator/pull/384

Restarting Springboard also kills WDA as a side effect. cc @mwakizaka

mykola-mokhnach on Nov 22, 2023

Restarting Springboard also kills WDA as a side effect. cc @mwakizaka

I’m sorry for the issue. I’m afraid but no have good ideas. Should not we restart Springboard when a WDA session already exists? Although we may try rebooting WDA session in such situation, I guess it will break the motivation (reuse a WDA session as far as possible in order to start a test run quickly)

We may make this behaviour configurable (e.g. add an additional argument to either allow or deny services restart after defaults are changed). So people have a choice. Also, calling this method before the session start is not as bad, because it retries, although calling it mid-session, using https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/blob/master/docs/execute-methods.md#mobile-configurelocalization endpoint, would probably have sad consequences with the current implementation.

It sounds good. Let me work in on next week if no problem.

mwakizaka on Nov 22, 2023