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copied!<p>I am trying to follow <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4191945/can-the-ui-automation-instrument-be-run-from-the-command-line">this post</a> to run UIAutomation scripts on iOS devices from command line, but i can't make it work.</p> <p>This is the command i am currently using : instruments -t /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Instruments.app/Contents/PlugIns/AutomationInstrument.bundle/Contents/Resources/Automation.tracetemplate /Users/X/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/TestiPhoneAutomation2-dyufpxsavtdqkybpagcoawdudzid/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/TestiPhoneAutomation2.app -e UIASCRIPT "/Users/X/Workspaces/TestiPhoneAutomation/test2.js" -e UIARESULTSPATH "/Users/X/Workspaces/TestiPhoneAutomation2/" -w 80bf5b...UDID...dfb52543 -v</p> <p>It works well on simulator (replacing the Debug-iphoneos by Debug-iphonesimulator, it also ignore the -w in this case), but if i launch it using an application compiled for device it crash (i tried with release and debug, i get the same result).</p> <p>The error i'm getting is : </p> <blockquote> <p>posix spawn failure; aborting launch (binary == /Users/X/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/TestiPhoneAutomation2-dyufpxsavtdqkybpagcoawdudzid/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/TestiPhoneAutomation2.app/TestiPhoneAutomation2). 2012-10-03 12:10:36.609 instruments[76151:1603] Recording cancelled : At least one target failed to launch; aborting run Instruments Trace Error : Failed to start trace.</p> </blockquote>

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