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Appium vs OutSystems
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Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employeesOutSystems
OutSystems excels with building web interfaces fast and lends itself to custom integrations written in .Net. Most anything can be brought in given this ability to be extended. One of the drawbacks to the speed of development is that most quality control teams become quickly overwhelmed and may be unable to keep up.
Senior Software Developer Team Lead
OrthoBanc, LLCFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Low-Code Development
Appium
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OutSystems
7.9
Visual Modeling
Appium
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OutSystems
7.9
Drag-and-drop Interfaces
Appium
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OutSystems
8.0
Platform Security
Appium
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OutSystems
7.8
Platform User Management
Appium
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OutSystems
7.5
Reusability
Appium
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OutSystems
7.8
Platform Scalability
Appium
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OutSystems
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
OutSystems
- Deployment management – OutSystems has a built in robust, multi-environment deployment system that helps ensures the clean and error free deployment of applications through the development, testing and production product lifecycle
- Rapid application development – Through the low code, graphical development environment you can develop applications far quicker than with more traditional development environments
- Cross platform mobile development – OutSystems handle the development and building of mobile application for both iOS and Android in a simple streamlined way that removes 90% of the problems normally associated with multi platform development
Web and Enterprise Team Lead
IT Vision Australia Pty LtdComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Cons
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
OutSystems
- The platform controls all the parts. While great for development and overall maintenance, it could lead to discussions with your DBA (who has to trust the platform). As a developer I love the platform, as a DBA I would like more control.
- By making software development model driven using flows, you are forced to rethink the way of programming. It makes it easier, but sometimes the way of working leads to code which could be optimized (standard problem in model based software development).
- Most of the code is generated, so the technical knowledge of the inner working of coding are not Essentials. This could lead to degration of this knowlegde. As part of this, most technologies will only be used when OutSystems supports it. They do a good job on implementing these things. But things like Node.js would be nice.
Senior Developer/Consultant
COOLProfsComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Appium
No score
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OutSystems
OutSystems 8.2
Based on 4 answers
We are very happy with OutSystems and our developers deliver good work. OutSystems lets us build new software on a regulare (2 weekly) basis, which is highly flexible and adjustable. Even without very much experience, our developers manage to build usefull software, which is working a lot better than our previous (legacy) software.
Studentenbegeleider
Stichting Vluchteling-Studenten UAFNon-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Usability
Appium
No score
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OutSystems
OutSystems 8.2
Based on 3 answers
I am really happy using OutSystems in my work. It gives me the opportunity to create good working software without having had very much IT-experience before. It also made me more interested in the background of IT and learning different languages.
Studentenbegeleider
Stichting Vluchteling-Studenten UAFNon-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Support Rating
Appium
No score
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OutSystems
OutSystems 7.5
Based on 46 answers
The tech support is very reachable. Usually by [email] from but also by phone if needed. We had some difficulties at the start with understanding "what our machine was doing" under high performance load. After some good sessions understanding our needs they delivered good solutions for our problems we had in the beginning.

Verified User
Project Manager in Product Management
Information Services Company, 51-200 employeesImplementation Rating
Appium
No score
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OutSystems
OutSystems 7.3
Based on 3 answers
In a large company, patiently and consistently work the behind the scenes politics with business and IT partners across the firm.
This is transformational - you will need a solid set of key business partners to lock arms together to move forward.
This is transformational - you will need a solid set of key business partners to lock arms together to move forward.

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 1-10 employeesAlternatives 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
OutSystems
I tried to use WordPress with some success. Also looked at Joomla. But when I saw OutSystems I knew I had been wasting my time there. It takes you longer to get going with OutSystems - but even I as a novice realized immediately that Outsystems is simply in another league. Outsystems is powerful. (Can you compare WordPress and Joomla to Outsystems - I don't think so).
Owner
Villa AfriqHospitality, 1-10 employees
Return 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+ employeesOutSystems
- The ease of use of the OutSystems development process has been the biggest ROI for us. We have developed our Framework product and maintained/enhanced it with only 4 workers.
- OutSystems has enhanced their product very significantly over the last 4 years. They have gone from a simple to use tool to a very simple to use sophisticated tool that covers the standard mainframe-based computing apps and the apps used on handheld mobile devices all using the same basic set of development tools.
CIO
CollabWorksComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Pricing 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
—OutSystems
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
OutSystems Editions & Modules
Edition
Basic | $4,000.001 |
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Pro | $10,000.001 |
- Per Month