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matthisb
matthisb

Reputation: 1118

Appium 1.2.2 - Desired capabilities required but not provided

I'm trying to test my phonegap application with [email protected] on my [email protected]. The app launches correctly but when I try to set the context to WEBVIEW Appium crashes with following error:

error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: The following desired   capabilities are required, but were not provided: platformName, deviceName

Ok, the message is clear but what confuses me, is that I've already set those capabilities via java-client

[...]
    capabilities.setCapability("automationName", "Appium");
    capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
    capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "4.4");
    capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "Nexus 7");
    capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "my.app.package");

    driver = new AppiumDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:9515/wd/hub"), capabilities);

[...]

Any ideas ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2745

Answers (1)

qefzec
qefzec

Reputation: 1370

You are testing a Phonegap app, right? Well, you need to use the Selendroid engine then, the (default) UiAutomator engine doesn't support Webviews.

Excerpt from Appium documentation:

For [...] tests of hybrid (webview-based) apps, Appium comes bundled with another automation backend called Selendroid.

In order to configure Selendroid, you need to specify the automationName parameter:

To use Selendroid, all that is required is to slightly change the set of desired capabilities mentioned above, by adding the automationName capability and specifying the Selendroid automation backend.

Upvotes: 1

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