The Scope of Appium and Its Merits and Demerits
Posted By : Anuj Gupta | 06-Aug-2018
Appium is an open-source test automation tool which is used to test mobile applications. Appium is used to automate native, mobile web and hybrid application on iOS, Android and Windows platform. It also allows us to run tests on simulators (iOS), emulators (Android) and real devices (Mac, Windows).
Today, most of the applications are developed either on Android or iOS platform so we need a tool to perform testing which should allow cross-platform testing.
Merits of Appium:
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1) It is an open-source tool.
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2) It supports multiple languages such as Python, Java, Ruby, C#, JavaScript with Node.js etc.
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3) It supports automation on native, mobile web and hybrid applications.
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4) There is no need to recompile the application for making some changes.
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5) It supports cross-platform.
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6) It supports multiple platforms such as Android, iOS, FirefoxOS, and Windows.
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7) With Appium, multiple device testing can be achieved.
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8) It provides record and playback functionality.
Demerits of Appium:
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1) There is no direct support for toast messages.
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2) There is not much support for mobile gestures.
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3) It does not support earlier versions of Android below 4.1 (Jelly Bean).
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4) We execute one test at a time on iOS.
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5) It is not easy to locate images so navigation through the elements is difficult sometimes.
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6) Execution of script is bit slow.
Conclusion:
Due to the increasing number of smartphone users and also web application migrating to the mobile application it becomes very important to test mobile application.
Appium plays an important role in providing a quality application. However, there are other mobile testing tools like Calabash, TestComplete, MonkeyTalk, etc. but Appium is still the choice of many organizations for testing purpose.
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Anuj Gupta
Anuj is a passionate QA engineer and an optimistic person. He is fond of playing Chess and Basketball. He always comes up with the new ideas and is a good team player.