Forum Discussion

slecault's avatar
slecault
Contributor
4 years ago

Start Appium mobile test without reinstalling the app

Hello,   New to Appium mobile testing (try to migrate from legacy mobile testing:-).   How do we run a mobile test without re-installing the mobile app each time. Current situation:  our app has...
  • hkim5's avatar
    hkim5
    4 years ago

    this is pure guesing, but :

     

    with the caps you have here:

    "appPackage": "com.myCie.pjc",
    "appActivity" : "myCie.views.pages.root.RootPage",
    "noReset" : "true",
    "fullReset" : "false"

     

    i feel like you can get rid of the "app" capability to the the path of your apk, and given the app is already on your android device, appium should be able to start the app given the 4 caps above without reinstalling from scratch.

hkim5's avatar
hkim5
Staff

this is pure guesing, but :

 

with the caps you have here:

"appPackage": "com.myCie.pjc",
"appActivity" : "myCie.views.pages.root.RootPage",
"noReset" : "true",
"fullReset" : "false"

 

i feel like you can get rid of the "app" capability to the the path of your apk, and given the app is already on your android device, appium should be able to start the app given the 4 caps above without reinstalling from scratch.

hkim5's avatar
hkim5
Staff
4 years ago

also, i feel like it shouldnt be reinstalling from scratch for android devices as per appium capabilities docs state:

enforceAppInstall By default application installation is skipped if newer or the same version of this app is already present on the device under test. Setting this option to true will enforce Appium to always install the current application build independently of the currently installed version of it. Defaults to false.