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Appium - powerful mobile testing tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 11, 2024
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Appium is Open source and we are making use of it in multiple projects. The one framework is WebdriverIO and Appium, other one Appium and Java. Appium is very useful for mobil...
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Team Lead
Appium4 years of experience

Appium Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 21, 2021
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Our organization using Appium for a long. Appium is very good for mobile automation and it is being used by the whole orgnization based on the project. Appium is allowing us t...
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Employee
Appium2 years of experience

Best Fit Mobile Automation tool for native, web and hybrid Android and IoS applications

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 17, 2021
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It is an indispensable tool for mobile automation and helps a lot in converting manual test cases to automated scripts. Being an open source tool, it yields good ROI.
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Appium2 years of experience

Mobile Automation with APPIUM is cost efficient, high re-usable and less maintainence

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 3, 2019
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Appium is used in our project to automate mobile application test cases. Our organisation has mobile apps on Android and IOS for different OS versions. With Appium we are able...
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Ajay Kumar
Consultant - Information Technology
Test Automation Lead
Accenture
Appium5 years of experience

Appium give your test the power

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 18, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Appium is used across the whole organization by teams which own the Android and iOS native applications. We're using it to automate large regression tests that by now we're ru...
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Javier Cardoso
Team Lead - Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance & Testing Senior Engineer
Mercadolibre.com
Appium2 years of experience
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Appium - Mobile Automated Testing

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
June 05, 2017
Verified User
Employee in Engineering
Building Materials Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Appium
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Appium is used by my team, QA Automation, to assist in automating testing for our mobile iOS and Android applications. Appium helps increase our automated testing coverage to handle mobile, it is open-source and cross-platform compatible and handles native, hybrid, and mobile web applications which are a huge business problem.
Pros
  • It works across multiple platforms.
  • It is an open source project.
  • It can handle native, hybrid and mobile web applications.
Cons
  • Since it is open source, we're at the hands of the developers whenever there is a business critical emergency.
  • We've run into issues which are not well documented and have spent considerable time communicating back and forth between the appium team to resolve them.
  • Setup could be simplified.
Likelihood to Recommend
Appium is perfectly suited for anyone trying to automate their testing suite to cover mobile applications. Since it is open-source it is continually being improved and does not require any expensive licensing fees to get that mobile application coverage needed. If that is a non-issue, it would be preferable to use another tool that is better documented and has a support team to diagnose any issues.
Return on Investment
  • Improved test coverage - 20%
  • Freed up manual testing resources to more important tasks
  • Application bugs/defects are found and resolved quicker
Alternatives Considered
I have not used any other product that compares to Appium in the realm of mobile automated testing.
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Appium is the Only Way To Go for Mobile Automation!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 12, 2017
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Randall Kelley
Senior Software Development Test Engineer
SecureAuth Corporation (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)
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Appium
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
At this time, my team is only using Appium, but this will most likely change as other teams have automation needs with mobile devices. The main reason why Appium is a good choice for us is that it allows for tests to interact easily with both Android and iOS devices. Instead of using one toolset for Android and another for iOS, Appium combines how automation functions with each platform and puts it all into one library.
Pros
  • Allows for a one-stop library to interact with both Android and iOS devices.
  • Appium has the backing of Sauce Labs, so there's considerable support for this library.
  • It's free! Open source with a lot of community support.
Cons
  • There are a number of expected methods that are not implemented, yet. With a similar sounding name as Selenium with similar functions, people who are familiar with Selenium try to use methods that appear to be available, but give a "not yet implemented" exception when run.
  • Documentation can be confusing.
  • Setup was a difficult process. This may not necessarily be the case once you figure everything out, but the whole figuring it out process was difficult and I ran into many, many problems when I first started.
Likelihood to Recommend
When testing on both Android and iOS (and who isn't?) then Appium is a great option. If there are some special scenarios that are needed to be tested like working with a device's file system or anything that might be outside of the app (maybe switching between apps while testing) then Appium may not meet all of your needs. I say that cautiously because there may be some functionality that I'm just not aware of yet or maybe coming soon that would work with this. I just haven't come across it, yet.
Return on Investment
  • 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.
Alternatives Considered
  • xcode and android sdk
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.
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Appium Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 05, 2019
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Appium
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Appium is used (along with other tools for automation such as Espresso) across all Mobile Testing projects in our company. It is primarily used as the main harness for Android and iOS test automation frameworks. The problem we address by using Appium is automating repeated human work as well as scaling testing for multiple mobile devices.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • There were some cases when Appium caused the application under test to crash. We were unable to allocate the reason at the support forums.
  • It has some backward compatibility issues. Although Appium developers state it's fully backward compatible, we still need to use particular combinations of Appium's mobile OS version to keep the most robust setup. The wrong combination may cause Appium to be unable to interact with some elements in the tested app.
  • It uploads WebDriver agent to iOS devices, and that may hang sometimes after several tests execution as its cache gets polluted.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Return on Investment
  • We achieved 80% of major test scenarios coverage.
  • ROI happened for our project per our estimate on 5th month.
  • The Dev team should pay more attention to the app testability and not let obvious issues appear (so automated scripts have more challenges).
Alternatives Considered
The main reason we selected Appium is that we had people experienced in WebDriver API and some framework solutions in place, so given our setup, it provided a faster and cheaper kick-off. Another reason we selected Appium was that SauceLabs had pretty good support for Appium tests in their cloud, so we didn't need to roll out any additional infrastructure.
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