Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS mobile, Android mobile, and Windows desktop platforms. Each platform is supported by one or more “drivers”, which know how to automate that particular platform.
It drives iOS, Android, and Windows apps using the WebDriver protocol.
Appium is at its heart a webserver that exposes a REST API. It receives connections from a client, listens for commands, executes those commands on a mobile device, and responds with an HTTP response representing the result of the command execution. Appium is a server written in Node.js.
Appium is free and open source software.
Features include:
- No need to recompile your app or modify it in any way, as Appium uses standard automation APIs on all platforms.
- Write tests with your favorite dev tools using any WebDriver-compatible language such as Java, Objective-C, JavaScript (Node), PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, Clojure, or Perl with the Selenium WebDriver API and language-specific client libraries.
- Built on the idea that testing native apps shouldn’t require including an SDK or recompiling your app. Use any testing framework.
- Built-in mobile web and hybrid app support. Within the same script you can switch seamlessly between native app automation and webview automation, all using the WebDriver model that’s already the standard for web automation.
- Automation is always performed in the context of a session.
Website: appium.io
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: The JS Foundation
License: Apache License 2.0
Appium is mainly written in JavaScript and Java. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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