In this case using GUI version of Appium won’t help. How to restart Appium server programatically during run time? Of course, I am not saying to keep a watch and restart the server in between manually 😛 A fresh session, a new session Id and each session has to deal with a set of commands, which is light weight. If its all about – freezing after several minutes/hours of test run, what if we restart the server in between. There is a possibility that Appium server after getting a large instruction sets to execute, eventually gets unresponsive and becomes idle by not responding to client side or not executing the commands at server side. If Appium server goes unresponsive in between the test run, creating a situation where script execution is freezed at some point which does not give the indication of either test failure or pass, in fact user has no clue if script is still running or it got failed. Well, We might be having a test suite which contains automation scripts that runs over a time period of several hours. This issue is blocking when iOS 8 device is concerned.

Several threads on Appium’s official forum and in some other discussion platforms, its is evident that a large number of users facing the issue of Appium server freezing which is boosting test execution time significantly.

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