Appium Reviews

To automate mobile apps, iOS and Android.

The way Appium server interacts with mobile apps is fantastic. It provides all the information about the elements inside the app, Android as well as iOS. I can interact with the element quickly, just type some text or get some text values from the element - whether it's a drop-down, or web text, or a native element.

Initially, Appium had a GUI, for Windows as well as for Mac, and there were some limitations that I couldn't figure out: How to run automated test on multiple iOS devices. However, we figured out that you can run a couple of instances of Appium in parallel, and use them to run tests in parallel, as well as sequentially. 

It's available as open-source for the iOS or Mac, as well as for Windows, so that's a pretty huge feature.

It needs to accommodate applications that use React.js and AngularJS.

Also, an application developed on the Unity platform, such as a gaming application, objects are moving in that case. Interacting with those elements is still lacking in Appium. Appium doesn't have the internal library to play with the Unity platform. That is a huge lack right now.

In addition, on Google platforms we can't use Appium to automate, that is a lack. 

So what I'm suggesting is that Appium should develop a newer, generic solution for all kinds of platforms used to develop applications.

The stability is there. 

I don't think I have experienced any problems with scalability. The scalability is good.

Whenever I have problem, most of the time the solution is available through the  Appium community, as well as through Google searches. I'm an R&D guy so I am able to figure out a solution quickly.

We used commercial tools like Experitest. There were a lot of limitations. For example, we had to use iOS Configuration Utility manager before using that tool. We felt Appium was better because it is an open-source tool. It is very competitive with any of the commercial tools, right now.

I didn't see any complexity in setting up Appium.

Overall, Appium is the best. It is not made as a commercial tool.

I would rate Appium as a nine out of 10 because it has the flexibility, simplicity, and it is elegant. It is technically more advanced, and even a beginner can start using Appium very quickly, and master it in less time.

I primarily use the solution for internal testing.

We can save some workload by using Appium. However, there is a similar workload for the test engineer since we can't reuse the previous test case in the future. A manual test is the same as an automated test in our corporation.

Many reference areas on the web can help you understand the product quite well.

The stability is good.

We do not need to pay for the solution. It’s free.

I can’t think of an area that needs improvement currently.

The setup and installation were a problem for us at first.

Tests can take a long time.

I’ve been using the solution for six months.

The solution is stable. It runs well. However, it also runs slow. The test duration takes a long time.

I don't have any scalability experience.

We have two or three people using the solution. There’s a test consultant, engineer, and architect.

We don’t use it at total capacity. We use it about 30% of the time.

I’ve used documentation in the past to help troubleshoot. I do not reach out to them directly for support.

I have experience with Appium, Tosca, and Parasoft.

The product was a bit difficult to install. it wasn’t easy. We had issues.

It took us four weeks to implement the product.

I’d rate the solution two or three out of five in terms of ease of setup. It’s moderately complex.

There are two of us that can handle the deployment.

I handled the initial setup myself. I had no assistance from outside resources such as integrators or consultants.

The solution is open-source and free to use.

You can pay to extend certain services. However, we never needed to do that.

We are not currently looking into other tools. We also never looked at any other solutions previously.

We are a customer and an end-user.

I’m not sure of the exact version of the solution. It’s likely the latest.

I’d recommend the solution to others. I rate it seven out of ten.

I use Appium to develop automation scripts for our mobile applications for iOS and Android and test client applications for our FinTech client.

Appium's best feature is that it supports multiple frameworks.

Appium has problems with automated validations following iOS updates, causing us to have to validate manually. Its execution speed is also very slow.

I've been using Appium for more than seven years.

Appium is scalable.

Appium's support forum is very helpful.

Appium is free and open-source.

I would give Appium a rating of seven out of ten.

We are a consulting company. Appium is an open-source library. We use Appium in our platform for optimizing mobile testing. For our company, Appium's similarity with Selenium is important as we use Selenium.

We have three users using this solution.

I find the configuration and interface of Appium valuable. Appium has easy interaction with mobile.

When doing mobile testing Appium is difficult as you can't use it for mobile testing in virtual machines. You need to have a physical machine. If Appium could manage this problem, and if it had more facility for configuration it would be a spectacular solution.

We have been using Appium for two years.

Technical support has been fine.

Appium is not easy to setup, it has a degree of complexity. 

The pricing of Appium is fine.

We evaluated Micro Focus.

I would rate this solution an 8 out of 10.

Support for both Android and IOS. It simplifies the testing setup.

It saves a large amount of QA resources needed for doing smoke tests and sanity checks on new versions of the app on several phones and OS versions.

Usability. The documentation is not always easy to follow, especially the advanced setup part, where the IOS predicates usage. Also, the Appium inspector, a tool which allows you to inspect screen elements, is rather tricky to setup.

Three years.

Yes. Sometimes the mobile environment reset and application installation are slow. Sometimes you need to kill and restart the Appium app. I have seen constant improvements though.

Appium is not that scalable, if you're using real devices locally. It can get scalable by using cloud services and emulators.

I am not aware of any paid support option. There is a decent sized community where you can get answers. Also, Appium and all language extension clients are open-source, so anybody can raise issues on Github.

Yes, Silk Mobile. Its features are very far from Appium's capabilities. Also, it is expensive.

Straightforward. Straightforward on Windows, relatively straightforward on MAC (the best option is testing on both Android and IOS devices), slightly tricky on Linux (I am using Arch Linux).

It's open source. There is nothing wrong with that.

I was using Silk Mobile, and it was not the right tool for our needs. Also, I tested the native automation on both Android and Mac. These are good options, but you need to switch context radically from Android to IOS and back.

Good luck, not sure how you can do it better. It has flaws, but is still much better than any other cross-platform mobile automation tool.

- Best part is that it's open source tool.

- Supports multiple mobile platforms.

- It supports native apps, mobile web & hybrid applications of both Android and iOS.

- It is based on Selenium using HTTP protocols.

- It supports most of the scripting languages like Java, Ruby, Java script, etc.

- It can be integrated with CI tools.

It is an indispensable tool for mobile automation helps much in converting manual test cases to automated scripts. Being an open source tool, it yields good ROI.

It should provide reliable & promising executions every time without any interruptions and avoiding any synchronization issues. They should also think of supporting Windows mobile applications as well in future.

The highest strength of this tool is that it's open source.