org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: A new session could not be created. (Original error: Requested a new session but one was in progress)

Question

I am using Appium 1.4.8 for iOS . I have build the code in simulator using xcode and successfully able to launch the server as well as Appium Inspector. But while running my

Answer 1

This happens because the previous session wasn't shutdown properly and it happens when there is exception thrown in your test. Restart the appium server and try it , it should resolve the issue.

Alternatively if you starting appium as node process, you can give option '--session-override true' and this would avoid this problem