Is it possible to prevent Appium from restarting between specs?

The problem

Not sure how to prevent appium from resetting between specs.

Environment

• Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.4.16
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: OSX 10.11.3 El Capitan
• Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): 4.4.4
• Mobile platform/version under test: iPhone 6
• Real device or emulator/simulator: Simulator
• Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: CLI

Details

Suppose that in my specs capability, I submit the following:

capabilities: {
  noReset: true,
  specs: ['a.test.js', 'b.test.js']
  //Other capabilities
}

Then , when I run appium with the CLI command of appium -lt 180000 --session-override --no-reset, I expect both specs to be run without reseting the emulator in between. However, what actually happens is that the emulator is reset after each spec completes (but not between individual tests within the specs). Is there any way to circumvent this, and run all specs consecutively on one instance on the emulator?

[azaslavsky]

So I’m using webdriver.io (rather than protractor), and via a CLI call that specifies which files to test, so I can’t set suites that way. I’ll get the test output in a bit.

[lock[bot]]

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