Script for doing screen captures v2

I had a bit of a problem with the script from 2013 -> https://qatesttech.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/script-for-doing-screen-captures/ My Setup and of course your device needs to be in USB debugging mode for this to work To run this script which I called “screen_capture.py” I used MonkeyRunner – which is part of the tools in the Android SDK (More info about how […]

My Setup on Mac

I downloaded the Android SDK (in my case for Mac) I created a subdirectory called Android for testing and put the Android SDK under that directory, with in that there is a subdirectory called tools where monkeyrunner lives (not this is not the “Monkey” tool) So I ended up with this file structure /Users/me/Downloads/_Android /Users/me/Downloads/_Android/android-sdk-macosx Underneath […]

Running adb devices, doesn’t show my connected device

When I return to debugging Android, this is the usually the first thing I run into (if abd is installed on my machine), I run “adb devices” and it shows nothing, even though my device is plugged into the USB Then I remember you need to turn on USB debugging, which means you need to […]

Setting up My Mac for working with Android

I wrote this blog post a while ago, but didn’t seem to work for me now I am on a refreshed Mac (IT replaced the HD) and also had a recent OS update, which might be why the old stuff I setup before isn’t working. I created a new Android directory to work out of […]

Some Tips and Tricks for Mac

Some Tips and Tricks for Mac, or things I want to find without always doing a google search System Commands for Mac Category Tip (How To) View environment variables Enter the following command in a terminal to print all the environment variables: printenv Show variables To show a list including the variables created by yourself you can enter the next command: ( set -o posix ; set ) | less This will show you not only your variables but the environment var too. Redirect Output Redirecting output to screen and a file […]

iPhone Simulator problem – Corrupted Device

The system I inherited kicks off builds via Jenkins, so I saw this error in the Jenkins output An error was encountered processing the command (code=146): Unable to erase contents and settings in current state: Creating 10:40:48 355) Business-Cards samples Batch 15 Business-Cards sample 355: biz-card-martin_0128.JPG 10:40:48 Failure/Error: Appium::Driver.new(desired_caps).start_driver 10:40:48 Selenium::WebDriver::Error::WebDriverError: 10:40:48 Command failed: /bin/sh -c xcrun simctl erase 8EFADEC6-6E22-482A-9810-5B0822653235 10:40:48 An error was encountered processing the command (code=146): 10:40:48 Unable to erase contents and settings in current state: Creating 10:40:48 # ./image_library_tests/image_library_regression.rb:67:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>’ This means the virtual device, got […]

Running a specific spec (e.g. test)

This is mostly a note to myself – babysteps, I was in the spec directory and tried running: rspec my_test.rb Bad idea, it ignored the my_test.rb and tried running through all the specs (test) in that directory, need to be on directory up (at least) and then run: rspec spec/my_test.rb So that only the one […]

Adding an image(s) to the iPhone Simulator

I managed to finally get an image to into my iPhone Simulator, running into a problem now, I can’t find the image to delete it or change. Anyway once you if you know the device that is running (if not you can find out the GUID here: https://qatesttech.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/determining-which-device-is-running-in-the-iphone-simulator/) These steps then worked for adding images: […]

Determining which “device” is running in the iPhone Simulator

I ran into a problem (again an issue with inheriting someone else’s system and trying to figure out how all the parts work.). The System uses xCode, and Appium, and Ruby, and RSPEC. In theory, according to the documention there is a configuration file, which based on the GUID tells me which “device” is running […]

Resetting an iPhone Simulator and Clearing Images

In theory there is this command, though I haven’t tried it yet and it requires the iPhone Simulator to be running xcrun simctl erase device_UUID Another option, which also requires the iPhone Simulator to be running is: Within the iPhone/iPad simulator, go to the top-menu and select “iOS Simulator” -> “Reset Content and Settings…“ However […]