How To Upgrade Appium From Command Line For Mac

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Applies to:Office for Mac, Office 2019 for Mac, Office 2016 for Mac

Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) version 3.18 and later includes the msupdate command-line tool. This can be used to start the update process for Microsoft applications produced for Mac, such as Office. The tool is primarily designed for IT administrators so that they have more precise control over when updates are applied. You can download the latest version of MAU from this link.

Discuss.appium.io - this is the Appium community forum, which is a great first place to go for help getting started, or if you think you may have run into a bug. The Appium issue tracker - let the Appium maintainers know here if you think you've found a bug.

msupdate works by sending Apple Events to the MAU daemon. On macOS 10.14 Mojave and later, you may see a privacy prompt when running msupdate for the first time. If you are using an enterprise management tool such as Jamf Pro, you should deploy a Privacy Preferences Policy Control (PPPC) payload to pre-approve access. Samples of such a payload can be downloaded from here.

Use the following steps to start using the tool:

Open the Terminal application
Enter cd /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0/Microsoft AutoUpdate.app/Contents/MacOS
Run ./msupdate --help

The following options are displayed:

Examples of how to use msupdate

Display the current configuration parameters for AutoUpdate:./msupdate --config
Display the current configuration parameters in machine-readable format:./msupdate --config --format plist
List all available updates:./msupdate --list
Download and install all available updates:./msupdate --install
Download and install the latest updates for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint:./msupdate --install --apps MSWD2019 XCEL2019 PPT32019
Download and install a version-specific update for Outlook:./msupdate --install --apps OPIM2019 --version 16.17.180090901

Application identifiers

The following table lists the applications for Mac supported by AutoUpdate. The identifier is used when specifying the --apps parameter. When specifying multiple applications on the command-line, separate identifiers with a space.

Application	Latest version¹	2016 version²
Word	MSWD2019	MSWD15
Excel	XCEL2019	XCEL15
PowerPoint	PPT32019	PPT315
Outlook	OPIM2019	OPIM15
OneNote	ONMC2019	ONMC15
MAU	MSau04	MSau04
OneDrive	ONDR18
Teams	TEAM01
Skype for Business	MSFB16
Remote Desktop	MSRD10
Intune Company Portal	IMCP01
Defender ATP	WDAV00
Edge Canary	EDCN01
Edge Dev	EDDV01
Edge Beta	EDBT01
Edge Stable	EDGE01

¹ These identifiers are used for Office 2019 for Mac, either a retail or a volume licensed version, and for Office for Mac (from an Office 365 plan) running on macOS version 10.12 (Sierra) or higher.

² These identifiers are used for Office 2016 for Mac, either a retail or a volume licensed version, and for Office for Mac (from an Office 365 plan) running on macOS version 10.11 (El Capitan) or earlier.

Note

If an update is pending for MAU itself, that update must be applied before any applications can be updated.
Identifiers are not case-sensitive when run interactively from the command-line, but use the character casing from the table above when running from a management tool such as Jamf Pro.

Edit this Doc Running Appium from Source

So you want to run Appium from source and help fix bugs and add features?Great! Just fork the project, make a change, and send a pull request! Pleasehave a look at our Style Guide before getting to work.Please make sure the unit and functional tests pass before sending a pullrequest; for more information on how to run tests, keep reading!

Node.js

Appium is written in JavaScript, and run with the Node.js engine. Currentlyversion 6+ is supported. While Node.js can be installed globally on the system,a version manager is highly recommended.* NVM - https://github.com/creationix/nvm* N - https://github.com/tj/n

Your Node.js installation will include the NPM package manager, which Appiumwill need in order to manage dependencies. Appiums supports NPM version 3+.

Setting up Appium from Source

An Appium setup involves the Appium server, which sends messages back and forthbetween your test code and devices/emulators, and a test script, written inwhatever language binding exists that is compatible with Appium. Run aninstance of an Appium server, and then run your test.

The quick way to get started:

Hacking on Appium

Install the appium-doctor tool, and run it to verify all of thedependencies are set up correctly (since dependencies for building Appiumare different from those for simply running it):

Install the Node.js dependencies:

When pulling new code from GitHub, if there are changes to package.json itis necessary to remove the old dependencies and re-run npm install:

At this point, you will be able to start the Appium server:

See the server documentationfor a full list of command line arguments that can be used. Columns in text box powerpoint.

Hacking with Appium for iOS

To avoid a security dialog that may appear when launching your iOS apps you'llhave to modify your /etc/authorization file in one of two ways:

Manually modify the element following <allow-root> under <key>system.privilege.taskport</key> in your /etc/authorization file to <true/>.
Run the following command which automatically modifies your /etc/authorization file for you:
sudo npm run authorize-ios

At this point, run:

Now your Appium instance is ready to go. Run node . to kick up the Appium server.

Hacking with Appium for Android

To work on Android, make sure you have ant, maven, and adb installedand added to system PATH environment variable. Also you would need theandroid-19+ sdk installed.From your local repo's command prompt, install/run the following:

Set up Appium by running:

Make sure you have one and only one Android emulator or device running, e.g.,by running this command in another process (assuming the emulator command ison your path):

Now you are ready to run the Appium server via node ..

Making sure you're up to date

Since Appium uses dev versions of some packages, it often becomes necessary toinstall new npm packages or update various things. Running npm install willupdate everything necessary. You will also need to do this when Appium bumpsits version up. Prior to running npm install it is recommended to removeall the old dependencies in the node_modules directory:

Different packages

Appium is made up of a number of different packages. While it is often possibleto work in a single package, it is also often the case that work, whether fixinga bug or adding a new feature, requires working on multiple packages simultaneously.

Unfortunately the dependencies installed when running npm install are those thathave already been published, so some work is needed to link together local developmentversions of the packages that are being worked on.

In the case where one package, A, depends on another package, B, the following stepsare necessary to link the two:1. In one terminal, enter into package Bcd B2. Use NPM link to create symbolic link to this package npm link3. In another terminal, enter into package Acd A4. Use NPM link to link the dependent package B to the development version npm link B

Now the version of B that A uses will be your local version. Remember, however, thatchanges made to the JavaScript will only be available when they have been transpiled, sowhen you are going to test from package A, run npm run build in the directory forpackage B.

Running Tests

First, check out our documentation on running tests ingeneral Make sure yoursystem is set up properly for the platforms you desire to test on.

Once your system is set up and your code is up to date, you can run unit testswith:

You can run functional tests for all supported platforms (after ensuring thatAppium is running in another window with node .) with:

Debugging Node

This project has multiple launch configurations for running NodeJS code from within VSCode

Debug: Runs Appium server in debug mode so you can set breakpoints inside VSCode source files
Attach Debug: Attach to a currently running Appium server
Example Usage
- From root, run node --inspect-brk . --port 5555
- Run attach debug
- Setup breakpoints in VSCode
Test All: Runs all mocha tests in test/. Can setup breakpoints in test code and source code
Test Current File: Runs the currently focused-on mocha file. Fails if it's not valid mocha test

Committing code

Each Appium package installs a pre-commit hook which will run the linter andthe unit tests before the commit is made. Any error in either of these will stopthe commit from occurring.

Once code is committed and a pull requestis made to the correct Appium respository on GitHub, Appium build systemwill run all of the functional tests.