Start & Stop Appium Server Programmatically using Java (MAC OSX)

Appium is widely used for mobile automation these days. You have to have your Appium server up and running before you can run your automated Appium tests. Most of the times, the test engineers ensure that the Appium server is running before they start executing the test suite. But this arrangement won’t work if you want to run your Appium tests in Continuous Integration/Deployment.

In this post, we will see how to start & stop Appium server programmatically using Java. This code is for Mac OSX (10.10). In next article we will see how to start & stop Appium server programmatically using Java on windows.

So here is the code Create a class called AppiumServer and paste the code mentioned below

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In your test class, before you set driver capabilities, start the Appium server like the following

Appiumserver server=new Appiumserver(); 
System.out.println("---- Starting Appium server ----"); 
server.startServer(); 
//Code for setting desired capabilities goes here (after the server starts successfully) 

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