Winium server

[naix86]

Hi,

Why is it that I keep getting server error when trying to the my test? telnet and http://localhost:9999 communicates with the server but not when running the test.

I am using VM Fusion

[NickAb]

I will need more info to debug the problem.

Could you please provide error with stack-trace (if available) and provide logs that are written by driver (I recommend to start driver with verbose flag option).

[naix86]

15:04:28 [DEBUG] Waiting for a connection...
15:04:28 [DEBUG] ACCEPTED REQUEST POST /session HTTP/1.1
15:04:28 [INFO] COMMAND newSession
{
  "desiredCapabilities": {
    "devicename": "Mobile Emulator 10.0.10586.0 WVGA 4 inch 512MB",
    "app": "C:\\Users\\xxx\\Documents\\xxx\\Sdk\\xxx\\bin\\x86\\Debug\\UWP_1.0.0.0_x86_Debug.appx"
  }
}
15:04:29 [DEBUG] RESPONSE:
OK:
{
  "sessionId": "2b03e3b5-40c7-486c-98b7-f2cae0d0a8ea",
  "status": 33,
  "value": {
    "error": "session not created",
    "stacktrace": "   at Winium.StoreApps.Driver.CommandExecutors.NewSessionExecutor.DoImpl() in d:\\Projects\\windows-universal-app-driver\\Winium\\Winium.StoreApps.Driver\\CommandExecutors\\NewSessionExecutor.cs:line 38\r\n   at Winium.StoreApps.Driver.CommandExecutors.CommandExecutorBase.Do() in d:\\Projects\\windows-universal-app-driver\\Winium\\Winium.StoreApps.Driver\\CommandExecutors\\CommandExecutorBase.cs:line 42",
    "message": "The data necessary to complete this operation is not yet available.\r\n"
  }
}
15:04:29 [DEBUG] Client closed

15:04:29 [DEBUG] Waiting for a connection...

[NickAb]

Are you able to launch emulator and deploy app manually using Windows Phone Application Deployment tool?

[naix86]

For this, I can't because "WinAppDeployCmd devices" is not capturing the device BUT i can run the automation after 10 retries.

[NickAb]

WinAppDeployCmd devices does not list a particular device or does not list any devices?

[naix86]

Does not list any

[NickAb]

So, once in ten times are are able to start emulator and run tests. What about other times, does emulator start as expected or does it fail?

You might experience some problems if you run your emulators inside a windows, that is running inside VM Fusion or Parallels with nested emulation. In such case you are basically running a VM inside a VM, because emulators are Hyper-V virtual machines. But so far I had ok experience with nested virtualisation at home and at work. At work we run server with esxi that runs a Windows VMs that we use for Windows Phone automation, but it requires some good hardware.

[naix86]

Hi Nick,

the other times it just launch the emulator without success in deploying the application.

I'm thinking along the same line of nested VMs too; Hyper-V and VM Fusion. But just no concrete proof.

Are there anyway to resolve this?

[NickAb]

You can try getting any results from WinAppDeploy. If it exhibits the same behaviour (working unreliable), then it will be hard to do anything. You can try adding RAM and CPU to your virtual machine. You can try restarting Hyper-V service, but I don't think it will have any effect.

[naix86]

hmm... i did them. i can't use WinAppDeploy because it just simply not giving me ip to the emulator. oh well.

[NickAb]

You can try WinAppDeploy UI app. If you have Visual Studio installed, does it always succeed to deploy the app to emulator?

Also, if you have access to Windows that runs on bare metal, not inside VM Fusion, you can try setting up and running tests on it to make sure that the problem is related to the setup, not to the app itself or the driver.

[naix86]

Will try the Windows bare. thank you !