appium-ios Role

This Ansible role deploys Appium to a machine running Debian or Ubuntu Linux, and adds support for running Appium tests on iOS devices.

This Ansible role will configure Appium to run as a SystemD service.

Requirements

This role installs Appium and software from Quamotion, which enables iOS support. You'll need a seperate license from Quamotion for xcuitrunner if you want to run tests on iOS devices.

Role Variables

Variable	Default	Description
appium_version	1.20.2	The version of Appium to install
quamotion_version	1.5.12	The version of the Quamotion utility (xcuitrunner) to install
license_file_path		If available, the path to your Quamotion license file
developer_profile_path		If available, the path to your iOS Developer Profile
developer_profile_password		If available, the password for the developer profile (the password used to protect the private key to the certificates)
devimg_dir		If available, the path to the directory which contains your Developer Disk images
appium_user	appium	The name of the service account for the Appium service

Dependencies

• This role uses the geerlingguy.nodejs role to deploy node.js

Example Playbook

The following playbook file will deploy the appium-ios role to a host named rpi:

---
- hosts: rpi
  become: true
  vars:
    license_file_path: /etc/quamotion/.license
    developer_profile_path: /etc/quamotion/quamotion.developerprofile
    developer_profile_password: quamotion
    devimg_dir: /etc/quamotion/devimg/
  roles:
  - appium-ios

License

MIT

Author Information

This role is authored by Quamotion.

Quamotion provides commercial software which allows you to automate iOS devices using Linux or Windows.