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What is Appium? Should You Be Using It?-Mobile Testing
Appium is a testing tool that has had growing popularity in recent years. But what is it and should you be using it?
This article will cover:
- What is Appium?
- Pros and Cons to Appium?
- Should you be using Appium?
What is Appium?
Appium is an open-source(free) automation testing tool. It can be used for automating tests for IOS and Android applications as well as windows desktop applications. It supports navtive, mobile, and hybrid applications. Appium gets its roots from Selenium, which is another testing tool that validates web applications. Appium uses JSONWireProtocol internally to interact with iOS and Android apps using Selenium’s WebDriver.
Native Applications-Applications written using the SDKs of Android, IOS, and Windows.
Mobile Applications-Web Applications that are used through a browser
Hybrid Applications-Web apps that have been put in a native app shell
What programming languages does Appium support?
