Appium Pros and Cons

inspecting the elements in mobile devices both android and ios Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

when we inspecting elements in ios or when we run scripts we will getting xcode 65 error Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's free and (mostly) open source. Easy to use for Test Automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Project setup is more complex and it does not support the low version of Android. Appium has biggest issue that the latest version GUI keep crashing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has enough documentation on the web to deal with projects in it, it is a multiplatform application that has revolutionized the market of applications testing thus allowing to obtain results and facilitating the work of quality assurance departments, The connection between the application and third-party software that complements it is excellent without mentioning the fact that it is an open source tool, so its implementation ends up being low cost for companies that require it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The installation of the application in theory is somewhat complicated and requires specialized personnel as well as its initial configuration, the tests in some operating systems are slowed down too much generating an important work traffic and slowness in obtaining results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Appium is good in terms of compatibility with mobile (Android & iOS). The amount of references available online was enough for me to quickly get going. Though the setup can be tough for a new comer but still resources available are good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Execution speed with the iOS. Though I won't completely blame appium for this as Apple is the main culprit here and Appium team does it's best to speedup tests. Couple of years ago tests used to take a lot of time but now it's way better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For mobile automation, Appium is very good to use. for taking XPath or id it is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

After connecting to mobile, It is taking so much time to open. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The first thing is it is open source and free. So you need not pay for your mobile testing solutions. On top of that you can integrate it with your favorite IDE like Eclipse, netbeans etc. to write the automated tests for mobile devices. You can also go for real mobile devices or simulate a specific android version using UI automator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would have been great if the tool had easy setup procedure. I know that is a one time activity but still that is way too confusing and you eventually run into version mismatch problems. I do not dislike the fact but it lacks windows mobile application support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Appium has one of the best support from the devs and the community, and is overall highly active with new updates regularly. Its API is well-documented and easy to understand, and easily scalable to multiple devices and/or computers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes a functionality you want to automate is version-sensitive to Appium and your machine environment, so you have to be especially careful with your setup if you want to reproduce it on another machine. Other times, APIs become deprecated without a clear successor, other times the Appium web server itself malfunctions mid-execution, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

useful for searching Xpath for automation. easy way to search Xpath , class, ResourceId from appium. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes resourceId not located, that is problem when we search for the resource id & its not found there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The convenience of connecting devices both Android and iOS. Easy configuration settings for both iOS and Android. Easy to integrate with Selenium. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Incompatibility issues with some specific android version such as Android Version 5.0. And also sometimes show vague errors which make difficult to debug the error and so effect/delay both the development time and cause overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Availability of functions to handle scenarios for mobile testing and quick adaptability to changes of API (for ex: transition to XCUI Test in iOS) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Speed in iOS testing. Also, inspecting element with Appium desktop is a bit slow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.