What is Appium?
Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid and mobile web apps. It drives iOS, Android, and Windows apps using the WebDriver protocol.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
95 Plan to Renew
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84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
- Respectful
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Appium Reviews
Lakshita U.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2022
Appium - Open Source Tool for Mobile Automation !
Likeliness to Recommend
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.
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- Efficient Service
- Caring
- Saves Time
- Fair
Vaibhav S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2022
Best Mobile Automation Tool !
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Appium from other similar products?
Appium has the best features that can be used for mobile automation and since it is an open source tool it makes even more convenient and cost effective to use. Best part is, it has no dependency on the OS of the mobile, it can be any, android or iOS. It is designed to be programmable and can be used any language like java, python, ruby etc. It can be integrated with many other software out of which one is Eclipse IDE. With all such features and benefits, Appium stands at the top in the current market compared to other similar products.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Appium is an open source tool due to which it allows user to save lot for the automation compared to manual. It has very good web-driver compatibility, selenium web driver is the best integration as a web driver to connect the appium with. it also supports different framework for testing and almost works on mobile platforms. Really helps the developers as well as automation testers to configure and even can learn the features at the same time. Connectivity between the servers and Xcode's tool during execution is really appreciative.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It is very hard during element browsing, seems not reliable as it creates many errors and its very hard to resolve. Even sometime runs slow compared to other software which is only thing I am discomfort with, otherwise it is the best software for mobile automation testing.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would definitely suggest Appium for mobile automation testing, firstly, it is open source tool and secondly, it has the best features and benefits which user can avail and finally it is very effective in use with great technical support team.
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- Continually Improving Product
- Unique Features
- Caring
- Client Friendly Policies
Charan Raj Y.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2022
Best Open Source tool for Mobile Automation
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Appium from other similar products?
The big difference between Appium and other mobile test automation softwares is, it is 1. open source 2. Strong user base 3. Features 4. Allows multiple languages
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Regression testing of mobile test scenarios Integration with Jenkins It's also similar to Selenium
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing dislike about the software It requires strong programming skills It takes time to develop a framework
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I strongly recommend for any Mobile Automation project regression testing purpose. Best part is it supports IOs and Android OS devices
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- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
