- Mar 19, 2018
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Advantages of Appium
- It’s an open source tool.
- Support for both stages Android as well as iOS.
- Handles simulators/emulators and real devices.
- Underpins automation of Hybrid, Native and Webapps.
- Underpins the vast majority of the programming languages like Java, Ruby, Python, C#, etc.
Competitors of Appium
Some of the contenders of Appium are Ranorex, Robotium, SeeTest, Test Complete, Jamo Solutions.
Appium vs. Robotium
Appium is a cross platform tool which means you can write or run the script for iOS and Android while Robotium supports the Android platform.
Appium supports multiple languages such as JAVA, C#, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc. whereas Robotium support only JAVA.
Appium can be used for mobile web, native and hybrid mobile applications. But Robotium can be used only for native and hybrid mobile applications for Android.
Appium vs. Selendroid
Appium supports all Android API levels having one limitation. As it uses UIAutomator for tests running on API>=17, for older API’s we need to run tests utilizing Selendroid.
Selendroid, a test automation framework which is utilized ONLY for Android apps. Whereas Appium is an open source automation tool used for Android, iOS, and Firefox OS too.
Selendroid has different Android target API support (10 to 19) and it has no confinement with Web-view testing like Appium which utilises UIAutomator for API>=17.
