Appium vs. OpenText UFT Digital Lab

Appium works well for well-structured mobile applications test automation that is particularly easy to leverage when different pages of the app use similar building blocks. If it takes time for some content in the app to be rendered, ask your dev team to add progress indicators and ensure they are accessible. That might be more complicated to do with Appium, though, if there's no good contact with Dev team established so you can request accessibility IDs added quickly enough when needed. Appium supports another locator strategies as well though (such as xPath or iOS class chain on iOS) but they wouldn't work as fast so you may get really slow tests.

Incentivized

It is well suited for companies which has geographically dispersed teams and limited devices in library. HP Mobile Center provides maximum usage of available devices on onsite, near shore and offshore models. It has distributed architecture which is very useful if your team must need physical access to device.

Incentivized

• Crossdevice: With Appium you can automate tests for Android and iOS both. There is no need to learn more than 1 language.
• Easy: It's really easy to configure and use appium; it's very useful when you're testing strategy is based on "developers write tests".
• Open Source: It's such a nice strength of appium, because you don't need to pay to use a good tool like Appium is.

Incentivized

• Management of the various devices.
• Management of various versions and installation of our application.
• Allow real device interactions like Biometrics.
• Simple to use interface for any manual tester.
• Works in any browser.
• Easy management of signed/packaged apps in Android and iOS.

Incentivized

• There are a number of expected methods that are not implemented, yet. With a similar sounding name as Selenium with similar functions, people who are familiar with Selenium try to use methods that appear to be available, but give a "not yet implemented" exception when run.
• Documentation can be confusing.
• Setup was a difficult process. This may not necessarily be the case once you figure everything out, but the whole figuring it out process was difficult and I ran into many, many problems when I first started.

Incentivized

• I would like to see stability in connection for connected devices in case of network failure, reboots and restarts
• I would like to see shorter support cycle for patch and updates from OS makers
• I would like to see a dedicated HPMC support center, where users can call-in and get answers as this a brand new product.

Incentivized

I am rating 10/10 because Appium can use with multiple programming languages with multiple Test engines. Also, it works for both Android and iOS.

Incentivized

The tool continues to meet our expectations and has shown that they are continually evolving the product with new features that benefit us. The most recent new feature was the auto-signing/packaging of iOS apps from the server to allow native interaction of features like biometrics. Prior this was a lengthy exercise.

Incentivized

I would like to give 9/10 rating to Appium because of it can easily integrate with popular frameworks and CI/CD tools, as well as it is reliable, flexible and easy to use. The setup can bit complex in initial step, but once on configured it's very easy to use and enables stable and scalable mobile automation for real and cloud devices.

Incentivized

Most of mobile testing tools which are available in the market are paid license tools. But Appium is Open source mobile testing tool. We can create customised automation framework using Appium. It also supports various languages such as Java, Javascript etc. And also supports various operating systems such as Android, IOS etc. We can easily integrate Appium frameworks with CI/CD [Jenkins, Git etc].

Incentivized

HP Mobile Center stacks well against solutions like Mobile Labs Device Connect, Perfecto Mobile and Device Anywhere. Its native integration with HP ALM and HP UFT makes it a clear choice for team already using those solutions. HP Mobile Center also provides extension to Amazon Device Library.

Incentivized

• For cost of ownership, the increase is positive times infinity, as it's free to install and use
• Lead time for suite development can be a negative, if not planned for during sprint planning
• Using Appium to execute tests in parallel across a cloud solution can improve CI/CD cycles by 100's of a percent

Incentivized

• Efficient use of the devices. Reduced the idle time.
• Better control over access and user management. Testing within our controlled environments.
• Better control of device matrix.
• Faster testing cycles. Early design bugs to development teams. Real devices means, less guess work.

Incentivized