I'm using appium for ios test automation. Lately, I get an error when installing an .app on a simulator. I could reproduce that locally.
Command line execution, that fails:
xcrun simctl install DEVICE_ID /full/path/to/app
Error message:
An error was encountered processing the command (domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code=2): Failed to install the requested application An application bundle was not found at the provided path. Provide a valid path to the desired application bundle.
However!
When I drag the .app on the Simulator, it works just fine.
The deviceId is correct. I can easily boot and shutdown the simulator via xcrun simctl.
This is on our CI mac slave. Running locally on my mac (with same versions) works just fine.
Environment:
OS version:
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.13.5
BuildVersion: 17F77
Xcode version: 9.4
Command line tools version: 9.4
xcrun version:
xcrun version 43
simctl version:
@(#)PROGRAM:simctl PROJECT:CoreSimulator-518.22
Simulator under test:
iPhone SE (11.4)
I would be very about any hints.
Thanks for the feedback. Good to know, that drag and drop uses the same API. I found out, what was the issue. The path was really incorrect. However, cd'ing into the path worked, that's why I thought, the path can't be the issue.
The actual path was "/Users/Jenkins/..." but I used "/Users/jenkins..." because this was returned by the jenkins' pwd function. Seems like our jenkins slave was misconfigured.
So, somehow cd could handle the incorrect casing, while xcrun simctl couldn't.