Appium

What differentiates Appium from other similar products?

The Appium can work with a variety of languages like Java, kotlin, and python C#. It integrates well with mobile native as well as a hybrid app. Integration with the CI/CD platform especially Jenkins is easy through a plug-in and we don't need another Appium server ( in simple terms language its tool agnostic). Appium is based on Selenium which is HTTP-based and designed to automate apps. The idea is actually very nice as automating an app, especially a review-based one isn't so different in terms of required APIs from automating a browser. Easy to understand & documentation on the website is very clearly written.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The great thing to consider about Appium is that it has no dependency on the OS of the mobile (Android or IOS).Works well with both OS platforms. Only the same API needs to be integrated. It is designed to be programmable and used with any language such as Java, Python, Ruby, and C++. Appium is a great tool source that allows the user to save a lot of time using automation compared to the manual testing effort. It has good web-driver compatibility. Selenium web driver is the best integrated as a web driver to connect the appium. Many different frameworks are there for the testing mobile platform but I found Appium cost-free and best.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Element browsing is not reliable as it creates many errors and is hard to find and solve. Need some upgrades for the same. Sometimes runs too slow compared to the other software and the support documentation needs a lot of improvement to understand rather than depending more on the support team. Sometimes application crashes due to Appium backward compatibility issues. Executors would have to wait for a longer time for the execution processor to get result.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I suggest just going for it, as the Appium tool is an excellent open-source, that helps us in automating the applications that can vary between native, hybrid, or mobile web applications. It also has the flexibility to check the performance of any app and suggest to us, that we can integrate it with any other platform. Also, it supports a number of languages C++,Python, Java.For mobile testing automation, it's really good software to go with without any second thoughts.I have worked on Appium for years now and found it a pretty straightforward tool to use, if you are looking for multiple languages support and cross-platform test cases.

What differentiates Appium from other similar products?

Bad tech support when calling re: implementation, very rude.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Decent custom configurations

What do you dislike most about this product?

Unclear setup and TERRIBLE customer service/tech support.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Hire better tech support. The woman I spoke to was rude and seemed unable to do anything but read from a script, like a broken helpdesk bot.

What differentiates Appium from other similar products?

Appium is a good tool to execute test scripts, no need to include any additional agents to make appium compatible for automation. Best part is, it is a open source tool which supports cross platform testing with support of multiple languages such as java, python etc. There are lot of community forums as well where one can get help from, support both iOS and Android platform.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Appium is very helpful while automating mobile web, hybrid applications on iOS and native platforms. Benefits like, we don't have to compile and modify the applications each time during automation. There is no restriction to any language and framework for writing and running the test cases. One can choose its own port where he wants to start the server for testing.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Processing speed is very slow, executors have to wait for longer time for execution process or to get result. Also, sometimes it can be difficult to implement or to execute multiple frameworks on different version of mobile OS.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Appium is very light weight and user friendly application for mobile web and native app testing. It has better console details to provide detailed information at each step of testing so that user can have better record details. I would strongly recommend Appium tool to all users who has requirement for mobile automation testing, worth using it.