Appium vs. Ghost Inspector

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Appium
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Ghost Inspector
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Ghost Inspector is a browser test automation and recording tool for testing website and web app functionality, from the company of the same name headquartered in Seattle.N/A
Pricing
AppiumGhost Inspector
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppiumGhost Inspector
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Small Businesses
Swiftify
Swiftify
Score 9.0 out of 10
BrowserStack
BrowserStack
Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Swiftify
Swiftify
Score 9.0 out of 10
ReadyAPI
ReadyAPI
Score 6.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Swiftify
Swiftify
Score 9.0 out of 10
ReadyAPI
ReadyAPI
Score 6.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
AppiumGhost Inspector
Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
(10 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppiumGhost Inspector
Likelihood to Recommend
JS Foundation
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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Ghost Inspector
1. It's amazing for all kinds of browser testing. 2. Very easy to use and you can implement it to cover your tests in a short time. 3. You don't need to be a coding guru, many stuff are autogenerated or builtin and can be easily implemented without huge efforts 4. Reporting and UI is easy to understand and navigate through
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Pros
JS Foundation
  • 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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Ghost Inspector
  • UI Integration tests
  • Asynchronas execution of suites and tests
  • Easy way to generate steps of the tests with Chrome plugin
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Cons
JS Foundation
  • 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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Ghost Inspector
  • The number of available integrations is small, but I see more integrations are coming on the way
  • Provide builtin alerting system in case of test failures
  • Improve provide more roles not only user and administrator. A viewer role for example
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Likelihood to Renew
JS Foundation
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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Ghost Inspector
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Usability
JS Foundation
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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Ghost Inspector
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Alternatives Considered
JS Foundation
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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Ghost Inspector
1. Faster in terms of time when building the integration browser tests 2. No or minimum development skills needed. 3. No server management is needed on our end. 4. Covers a lot of browsers and cases 5. Builtin integrations for different stuff like slack and PD 6. Fast and provides asynchronous executions
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Return on Investment
JS Foundation
  • 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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Ghost Inspector
  • We saved a lot of money by using this tool instead of purchasing expensive ones
  • The implementation of integrations test was supposed to take 6 months of development. With GI it took 2 months only
  • Training QA to build integration tests using GI is much less that any other tool that might need development skills
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