[CB-10619] Appium tests fail to switch context to webview on Windows slave's Android emulator

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-medic
• Assignee: Alexander Sorokin
• Reporter: Alexander Sorokin
• Created: 15/Feb/16 16:49
• Updated: 17/Feb/16 09:11
• Resolved: 17/Feb/16 09:11

Description

Here's a log sample

> RESPONSE init({"browserName":"","appium-version":"1.3","platformName":"Android","platformVersion":19,"deviceName":"Galaxy_Nexus","app":"C:\\Users\\buildbot\\slaves\\apache\\cordova-android-win\\mobilespec\\platforms\\android\\build\\outputs\\apk\\android-debug.apk","autoAcceptAlerts":true}) "7dc6d1dd-d4ef-41aa-ac32-a3400d333e6b",null
 > CALL setImplicitWaitTimeout(10000) 
 > POST /session/:sessionID/timeouts/implicit_wait {"ms":10000}
 > RESPONSE setImplicitWaitTimeout(10000) 
 > CALL sleep(20000) 
 > RESPONSE sleep(20000) 
 > CALL sleep(10000) 
 > RESPONSE sleep(10000) 
[MEDIC LOG Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:54:00 GMT] Spec passed: camera.ui.util configuring driver and starting a session
[MEDIC LOG Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:54:00 GMT] Starting new spec: camera.ui.spec.1 Saving the picture to photo library
 > CALL context("WEBVIEW") 
 > POST /session/:sessionID/context {"name":"WEBVIEW"}
 > CALL context("WEBVIEW") 
 > POST /session/:sessionID/context {"name":"WEBVIEW"}
 > CALL elementById("middle") 
 > POST /session/:sessionID/element {"using":"id","value":"middle"}
[MEDIC LOG Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:59:20 GMT] Spec failed: camera.ui.spec.1 Saving the picture to photo library
[MEDIC LOG Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:59:20 GMT] Starting new spec: camera.ui.spec.2 Selecting only videos
 > CALL context("WEBVIEW") 
 > POST /session/:sessionID/context {"name":"WEBVIEW"}
 > CALL context("WEBVIEW") 
 > POST /session/:sessionID/context {"name":"WEBVIEW"}
 > CALL elementById("middle") 
 > POST /session/:sessionID/element {"using":"id","value":"middle"}
 > CALL execute("var info = document.createElement(\"div\"); info.id = \"info\"; document.body.appendChild(info);") 
 > POST /session/:sessionID/execute {"script":"var info = document.createElement(\"div\"); info.id = \"info\"; document.body.appendChild(info);","args":[]}
An error occured: [execute("var info = document.createElement(\"div\"); info.id = \"info\"; document.body.appendChild(info);")] Error response status: 6, 
Failing with message: [execute("var info = document.createElement(\"div\"); info.id = \"info\"; document.body.appendChild(info);")] Error response status: 6, 
[MEDIC LOG Mon, 15 Feb 2016 07:59:20 GMT] Spec failed: camera.ui.spec.2 Selecting only videos

Upon initial investigation I found that it is a bug in chromedriver:
https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/5616

It has been fixed in a new chromedriver version but Appium didn't bundle it yet.

As a temporary workaround we can specify "chromedriverBinary" as a desired capability when starting appium session and point it to a newer chromedriver binary.