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    Appium

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AAppium is an open-source, cross-platform UI test automation framework governed by the OpenJS Foundation. Designed to automate user interface testing across mobile, web, desktop, and smart TV applications, Appium provides a W3C WebDriver-compatible protocol that enables developers and QA engineers to write test scripts against native, hybrid, and web applications without modifying source code or bundling proprietary testing SDKs.N/A

    BlazeMeter

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform is a unified, end-to-end, next-generation software test automation platform built for both Agile and COE teams, from Perforce. BlazeMeter includes complete continuous testing capabilities deeply integrated into a single, intuitive workflow.

    $199

    per month

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    AppiumBlazeMeter
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic
    $149.00
    per month
    Pro
    $649.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AppiumBlazeMeter
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    AppiumBlazeMeter
    Automation Testing
    Comparison of Automation Testing features of Appium and BlazeMeter
    Feature
    Appium
    -
    Ratings
    BlazeMeter
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    CI/CD Tool Integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Integrated Version Control00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Data-Driven Testing00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Testing Collaboration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Testing Reports & Analytics00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    BrowserStack
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    BlazeMeter
    Score8 out of 10
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    Tricentis Tosca
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AppiumBlazeMeter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    AppiumBlazeMeter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    1. It's open source which supports range of languages, operating systems and languages. Well suited for Android and IOS mobile automation. Supports all kinds of apps, which makes it flexible and robust mobile testing tool 2. It is less appropriate where we need intercept network call to verify the API calls. Extensive coding experience is required to work Appium
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    Perforce Software
    It is well suited for applications that are mission-critical or applications that can receive high traffic/transactions at unscheduled time periods. Using the load testing feature of BlazeMeter, we can test and ascertain the capacity of the application without the drawbacks of the usual Apache JMeter load testing which depends heavily on the host system from where the load testing is performed.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • It uses WebDriver API so it makes it easy to use for former web test automation engineers.
    • It can be managed via the command line via an extensive set of parameters.
    • It handles implicit waits at the server side that is especially valuable in distributed infrastructure.
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    Perforce Software
    • BlazeMeter takes the .jmx script that teams had written for JMeter. The transition from JMeter to BlazeMeter was seamless.
    • BlazeMeter offers its own cloud and hence we did not have to set it up on-premise.
    • BlazeMeter hits our application from various geographic locations that simulates real life users.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Element browser sometimes is unreliable and has sporadic fails.
    • Appium running is a bit slow, compared to tests written with Appium and with Espresso or XCTest.
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    Perforce Software
    • Blazemeter reporting is very basic and shallow. There is no way to drill down or correlate. I can get better reports by using JMeter for free.
    • Blazemeter is very costly. Testing with volumes of more than 1K cu is expensive, and can be done for much cheaper if a company/team is willing to invest a bit of time to figure out how to use cloud instances and jmeter slaves, and to write a basic script to collect resulting xml output.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    I am rating 10/10 because Appium can use with multiple programming languages with multiple Test engines. Also, it works for both Android and iOS.
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    Perforce Software
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    Usability
    Open Source
    I would like to give 9/10 rating to Appium because of it can easily integrate with popular frameworks and CI/CD tools, as well as it is reliable, flexible and easy to use. The setup can bit complex in initial step, but once on configured it's very easy to use and enables stable and scalable mobile automation for real and cloud devices.
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    Perforce Software
    Easy to setup to do API Performance Testing. Dashboard to showcase results Capability to showcase runtime results
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    If you're an Apple developer, you use Xcode. It's practically a forced necessity. For system testing though, it doesn't have to be. You can have your development team focus on unit and integration tests in their platform and another team automate acceptance tests with a language they are more familiar with.
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    Perforce Software
    In comparison with Blazemeter the closes competitor is JMeter but it has disadvantages like it is not a tool that can be use as a collaborative tool and works locally in a computer, Blazemeter is in the web so different people can access and run tests or collaborate do add, edit or delete the existent scripts.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Appium is open source, so it's free. That's budget friendly right there.
    • The ability to write mobile automation tests has saved considerable time for our manual test team, but that is true with most automation tests.
    • We use Sauce Labs with our other automation, but Appium works great with Sauce Labs, as well, if I needed to run on emulators and simulators.
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    Perforce Software
    • It helped positively by helping to identify the maximum capacity needed for high traffic periods
    • Saved revenue by eliminating unwanted duplication of systems
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