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Appium
Appium works well for well-structured mobile applications test automation that is particularly easy to leverage when different pages of the app use similar building blocks. If it takes time for some content in the app to be rendered, ask your dev team to add progress indicators and ensure they are accessible. That might be more complicated to do with Appium, though, if there's no good contact with Dev team established so you can request accessibility IDs added quickly enough when needed.Appium supports another locator strategies as well though (such as xPath or iOS class chain on iOS) but they wouldn't work as fast so you may get really slow tests.

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Team Lead in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employeesAWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core provides a good solution for IoT services required for IoT application development and for IoT startup companies. AWS IoT platform provides special packages for IoT startups, helps them in lowering costs, and caters to all their educational and training needs. AWS IoT platform is integrated with powerful AI and ML analytics so IoT startups can focus more on device development and less on backend solutions. I don't see any scenario where the IoT Core would be less appropriate.

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Consultant in Engineering
Legal Services Company, 1001-5000 employeesFeature Rating Comparison
Internet of Things
Appium
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AWS IoT Core
8.5
IoT Device Management
Appium
—
AWS IoT Core
8.5
Device Security
Appium
—
AWS IoT Core
9.1
IoT Data Management
Appium
—
AWS IoT Core
8.1
IoT Analytics
Appium
—
AWS IoT Core
8.9
IoT Integration
Appium
—
AWS IoT Core
8.0
Pros
Appium
- Crossdevice: With Appium you can automate tests for Android and iOS both. There is no need to learn more than 1 language.
- Easy: It's really easy to configure and use appium; it's very useful when you're testing strategy is based on "developers write tests".
- Open Source: It's such a nice strength of appium, because you don't need to pay to use a good tool like Appium is.
Quality Assurance & Testing Senior Engineer
Mercadolibre.comInternet, 1001-5000 employees
AWS IoT Core
- Makes it easy to use other Amazon services like Lambda and S3
- Regular updates bring new features to the platform
- It is exceptionally well documented

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Team Lead in Information Technology
Internet Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
Appium
- Execution against live iOS devices can be quite slow. This will likely be improved in the near future
- Challenging for a new user to take on without guidance from a veteran
- Upgrading to a new version of Xcode before the tool is updated can render you suite useless, until an update is available
Test Engineer III
Cox AutomotiveAutomotive, 1001-5000 employees
AWS IoT Core
- At very early stages it might be difficult to understand the AWS IoT console.
- It takes time to understand the concepts.
Software Engineer
InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
Usability
Appium
No score
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AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core 9.0
Based on 6 answers
Easy to use. That's the main goal and this nails it. From the user perspective, this is as intuitive as you would expect from an Amazon product. Easily connect and host without a bunch of training and hand-holding. Change management is always part of the process but this was about as smooth as I have seen.

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Analyst in Other
Government Administration Company, 201-500 employeesSupport Rating
Appium
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core 8.2
Based on 6 answers
Of course it saves our company resources and time and to the tedious job of sending our device data to Cloud server. Lots of devices communicate with Cloud using the single tool AWS IoT.
Programmer Analyst II
Ivy TechnologyComputer Software, 10,001+ employees
Alternatives Considered
Appium
Hard to compare Appium to Xcode and Android sdk because Appium uses them, but those are the only comparisons I could come up with to compare Appium with another product. I'm sure there may be other mobile automation tools, but none are as mainstream as Appium or with the support. You will need to install both Xcode and Android sdk to have Appium function.
Senior Software Development Test Engineer
SecureAuth CorporationInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core is faster, easier, cheaper, and enjoyed by our employees more than Microsoft Azure. We selected AWS IoT because we saw an advertisement for it and have used it ever since. We will continue to use it as long as it is around or until we find one that is better.

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Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employeesReturn on Investment
Appium
- Improved test coverage - 20%
- Freed up manual testing resources to more important tasks
- Application bugs/defects are found and resolved quicker

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Employee in Engineering
Building Materials Company, 10,001+ employeesAWS IoT Core
- AWS IoT Core has lowered the cost of device development and data management.
- Data analytics have become easy with power AI and ML algorithms.
- Overall, the platform is highly secure so data security is not an issue now.

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Consultant in Engineering
Legal Services Company, 1001-5000 employeesPricing Details
Appium
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Appium Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—AWS IoT Core
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
AWS IoT Core Editions & Modules
Edition
Connectivity | $0.081 |
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Messaging | $1.002 |
Rules Engine | $0.153 |
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- Per Million Messages
- Per Million Actions