App Centre UI Test Fails With Message Error: The .ipa file does not seem to be linked with Calabash framework. for Xamarin iOS

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CraigMcNicholas-0692 asked Mar 16, '21 CraigMcNicholas-0692 answered Mar 16, '21

App Centre UI Test Fails With Message Error: The .ipa file does not seem to be linked with Calabash framework. for Xamarin iOS

When publishing my ipa to test cloud I receive the above error. I have followed discussions in older articles:

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/59412/ipa-file-not-linked-with-calabash
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/85814/the-ipa-file-does-not-seem-to-be-linked-with-calabash-framework

etc.

I have double checked that I am:

building in Debug
My compiler directive looks like: DEBUG;ENABLE_TEST_CLOUD;
I have added the code below to enable calabash in AppDelegate.FinishedLaunching

// starts calabash when built for test cloud
if ENABLE_TEST_CLOUD
Xamarin.Calabash.Start();
endif

The strange thing is if I remove the if compiler directive above and just put Xamarin.Calabash.Start(); in the function then it works as expected.

It's almost like my compiler directive is not being honoured but I have double and triple checked, see image below.

dotnet-xamarin vs-testing

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Answer 1 · 2021-03-16T10:11:05.163Z

CraigMcNicholas-0692 answered Mar 16, '21

I managed to solve it.

My Debug configuration was set to iPhoneSimulator rather than iPhone. Changing this my configuration settings allowed this to build correctly and now works with test cloud

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Answer 2 · 2021-03-16T06:23:48.423Z

ColeXia-MSFT answered Mar 16, '21 CraigMcNicholas-0692 commented Mar 16, '21

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

I'm not quite sure if this is the problem, but could you try to modify your code as below

// add # at beginning
#if ENABLE_TEST_CLOUD
            Xamarin.Calabash.Start();
#endif

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CraigMcNicholas-0692 · Mar 16, 2021 at 10:10 AM

thanks for the suggestion, I accidentally omitted the hash in my sample code, I do have this and unfortunately didn't work.

I managed to work it out and will post below, thanks.

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