0“Appium is an open source, cross-platform test automation tool for native, hybrid and mobile web apps, tested on simulators (iOS, FirefoxOS), emulators (Android), and real devices (iOS, Android, FirefoxOS).”
- APPIUM is a freely distributed open source mobile application UI testing framework.
- Appium allows native, hybrid and web application testing and supports
- Automation test on physical devices as well as on emulator or simulator both.
- It offers cross-platform application testing i.e. single API works for both Android
- And iOS platform test scripts.
- It has NO dependency on Mobile device OS. Because, APPIUM has framework or
- Wrapper that translate Selenium Webdriver commands into UIAutomation (iOS)
- Or UIAutomator (Android) commands depending on the device type not any OS type.
- Appium supports all languages that have Selenium client libraries like- Java,
- Objective-C, JavaScript with node.js, PHP, Ruby, Python, C# etc.
