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I have problems setting up an Appium test framework on Mac OS.

My system settings are:

  • Mac OS (El Capitan)
  • xCode 7.2.1
  • Appium GUI 1.4.13
  • python 2.7.10

First question: Does the Appium GUI offer everything? So do I still need an selenium webdriver installation? Or do I need any client bindings?

I want to run the example test ios_simple.py test for the example app TestApp. What I do so far is:

  1. I start the Appium GUI
  2. I launch the Appium server by GUI
  3. I start the example test script by terminal python ios_simple.py

If I do so, I cannot start the Appium inspector by GUI. I receive the following errors: enter image description here enter image description here

So where is my fault? What am I missing to do?

Hope anybody can help me. Thanks!

Steve Murdock
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    1. Are you able to access the `instruments` in ways other than appium script? 2. Also please make sure you have `Use Native Instruments Library `checked under `Advance settings` for IOS platform in Appium's UI. 3. `Enable UI Automation` setting in setting--developer – Naman Mar 29 '16 at 09:46
  • could be similar to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35633001/appium-instruments-crashed-on-startup/35646176#35646176 – Naman Mar 29 '16 at 09:46
  • Also a point over App Path : could you double check the path that you are providing in the GUI. – Naman Mar 29 '16 at 09:54
  • Okay. I checked the `Use Native Instruments Library` in Appium GUI Advanced settings. Now it works as far as I can see. But in Appium documentation it is declared as deprecated. So why do I have to check this setting? Why does it not work without? Where do I enable `UI Automation`? In xCode? In Appium? Is it a command line parameter? – Steve Murdock Mar 29 '16 at 11:08
  • Could possibly be the version of Appium you are using and the version for which you are going through the docs. – Naman Mar 29 '16 at 11:11
  • could you please close this(rollback the thread) if the problem is solved – Naman Mar 30 '16 at 09:10
  • `Use Native Instruments Library` solved this problem. – Steve Murdock Mar 30 '16 at 10:52

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