Item: Appium
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Appium

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have mobile banking application as one of our products and we used Appium as our primary mobile automation framework to test our application. Appium enables automate all the regression, smoke and functional test scenarios across both Android and iOS platforms. We are using Appium with Java 17 + TestNG and this framework reduced our manual testing effort and also improve the regression speed, product quality, stability and fast delivery.

Pros and Cons

Pros

With use Appium we can maintain single framework for both iOS and Android automation.
Appium supports Real Devices, Emulators and Cloud hosted devices like Browserstack, Kobiton.
Appium allow to inspect elements in the UIs. Support for both Android and iOS.

Cons

Test Execution Speed - Especially in device farm executions it may be slow execution due to driver communication.
Sometimes may be complex to implement scrolling methods.
Setup and configuration - This may be difficult to new users.

Return on Investment

Reduced Manual Regression Effort By 60%
Accelerated Release Cycle
Improved the product quality

Usability

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.

Key Insights

Do you think Appium delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Appium's feature set?

Yes

Did Appium live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Appium go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Appium again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira, XRay by Idera, Microsoft Teams, Postman, Vysor

Likelihood to Recommend

Appium is well suited For,
1) Cross-Platform Mobile Automation - As I mentioned before Appium can use automate both Android and iOS applications.
2) Best Option For reduce regression test effort - Appium automation frameworks can execute your Regression suites fast than the manual regression test.
3) Device Compatibility Testing - If you want to perform your test on different devices, you can run same scripts on different devices by integrate with device farms.

Appium is less Appropriate For
1) Load and Performance Testing

Using Appium

Users and Roles

25 - We used Appium as our mobile automation framework and it represent the mobile automation testing and quality assurance domain. Our company have around 25 automation engineers and all of them use Appium for mobile application test automation for both Android and iOS applications. Additionally, some members from Development and DevOps functions collaborate to integrate Appium scripts into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring faster, reliable releases.

Support Headcount Required

10 - We have nearly 5 recourses in-house to support Appium on an on-going basis.
Test Automation Specialists - They have wide knowledge about Appium, Selenium & Rest Assured. When the training or technical knowledge needed, they provide.
QA Lead - Always support to solve the deep technical issues with Appium and navigate team to better results.

Business Processes Supported

Functional Testing - Mobile Automation
Regression Testing - Mobile Automation
Cross-Device Compatibility Testing

Innovative Uses

Automate Visual Validations
Data-Driven Testing from External Sources
Hybrid App Workflow Automation (Combining mobile and web app testing in a single Appium script)

Future Planned Uses

AI-Powered Test Automation
AI-Powered Auto healing for locators

Likelihood to Renew

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.

Appium A Powerful Cross-Platform Mobile Automation Solution for Mobile Apps