
What is Appium?
Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid and mobile web apps. It drives iOS, Android, and Windows apps using the WebDriver protocol.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
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97 Plan to Renew
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82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Helps Innovate
- Saves Time
- Fair
- Performance Enhancing
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Appium Reviews

Vikrant S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2022
Best Open Source Application Automation Tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Appium from other similar products?
Appium is one the best Open Source Automation tool in the market. It is easy to use and can also be used for Mobile testing. It is supporting all mobile OS and different versions of them.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
We can use different languages to create the automation scripts.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The application sometime hang and little bit slow as compare to other tools.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are looking for automating the applications and Mobile testing you can opt for this tool.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity

Satya Dileep Kumar T.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Apr 2022
Eases mobile automation with great support
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Appium from other similar products?
Support for android, ios and windows following page object design pattern that helps developers in writing tests effiiciently.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Being open source with multi-platform support and support to various languages is the greatest strength of Appium. Appium server is very powerful that efficiently communicates with respective frameworks along with session ids for tracking.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Performance issues, synchronization issues at times especially while executing can be improved
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Crash reports must be effectively analyzed as the instances of crashes are high with xcuitest
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
- Unique Features
Cons
- Vendor Friendly Policies
- Less Generous
- Less Friendly Negotiation

Petar M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2022
Best mobile app testing tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Appium from other similar products?
Open sourced. Amount of features and capabilities is unmatched by other tools.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Open sourced, tons of support from the community.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Can be hard to setup initially.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Best tool for mobile app testing with Selenium WebDriver. Supports both Android and iOS.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity