Appium Reviews

Appium configuration is a bit complex and tricky some times to implement all kind of mobile OS versions

There should be some utility to compare screens of mobile apps

A skilled automation tester is required to build the quality code for automating mobile test cases

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.

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.

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

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.

It should provide reliable & promising executions every time, without any interruptions

Avoid any synchronization issues

Supporting to Windows mobile applications also in future.

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.