No logs are shown in the session when running tests on appium

[TripleG]

When an appium(Android) session is completed I see no output in the Log tab, but only in the Test results. The android actor configuration has logLevel: TRACE

Any idea what could be wrong?

Test results

Log

[Naveenkumarnnk]

Hi @TripleG,

I also noticed this no logs issue while running scripts in Chrome. As far as I know, it is because of the actor and server consoles we opened. If we close them and reopen or clear the console, it would work.

This is my understanding, correct me if I am wrong.

[TripleG]

Hi @Naveenkumarnnk ,

I actually haven't tried this, but I am a bit confused what you mean.
Do you mean that when running tests on Android Chrome, the server and actor consoles should not be opened, therefore server and actor must be started as "headless" processes?

[Naveenkumarnnk]

Hi @TripleG,

I mean, as we are running many tests, the server and actor console's heap memory would be full.

So, we have to clear the console or close and reopen them.

[TripleG]

I am even more confused. If server and actors heap is getting filled up with time, this would mean that server and actors are not intended to be long running processes, which sounds strange to me.

Hi @adrianth , could you please take a look?

[TripleG]

@adrianth, this happens not only for Android sessions, but for all(Windows Chrome for example). All logs appear in the actor console, but they don't get saved into the logs/{session-number}.log(except the initial messages which are on screenshot).

Restarting server and actor didn't help.
Regarding Windows Chrome actor: on my local(dev) machine this issue is not happening - all actor logs are correctly printed in the console and written to the .log file. Both machines(dev and prod) are Windows 10.

[adrianth]

I investigated this issue and I found the bug that is causing it. I will correct this and will be publishing a new release with the fix. It'll take about a week, because I'd like to include a few more things in there.

[arineiza]

Hi, Adrianth. It still happens. When will the corrected version be available? Thanks.

[adrianth]

The new release is published in beta and we're testing it as we speak. If you want to try it out, you can install it with

npm install opentest@beta -g

Please be aware that we updated a lot of dependencies (including the Appium client library to the latest version), so you shouldn't use this release in any business-critical CI pipeline yet.

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