Wilco van Esch

Example error (for test using Appium with Selenium WebDriver and Rspec) when a previous test was aborted before a clean exit:

Failures:

  1) The APPNAME app displays SCREEN when user selects OPTION
  Failure/Error: driver =
  Appium::Driver.new(options).start_driver

     Selenium::WebDriver::Error::SessionNotCreatedError:
       Requested a new session but one was in progress
     # ./spec/spec_helper.rb:20:in `block (2 levels)
       in <top (required)>'

Finished in 0.06314 seconds
(files took 0.73578 seconds to load)
1 example, 1 failure

To prevent this error in subsequent test runs:

1. Stop the Appium server if it is running
2. In Appium, go to Preferences
3. Select General
4. Check the Override Existing Sessions checkbox
5. Start the Appium server