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. Is native app automation missing from your tool belt? Problem solved. Appium is built on the idea that testing native apps shouldn't require including an SDK or recompiling your app. And that you should be able to use your preferred test practices, frameworks, and tools. Appium is an open source project and has made design and tool decisions to encourage a vibrant contributing community. Appium aims to automate any mobile app from any language and any test framework, with full access to back-end APIs and DBs from test code. Write tests with your favorite dev tools using all the above programming languages, and probably more (with the Selenium WebDriver API and language-specific client libraries).
Features
- Automate native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS mobile, Android mobile, and Windows desktop platforms
- Appium is "cross-platform": it allows you to write tests against multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Windows), using the same API.
- It enables code reuse between iOS, Android, and Windows testsuites
- You shouldn't have to recompile your app or modify it in any way in order to automate it
- You shouldn't be locked into a specific language or framework to write and run your tests
- A mobile automation framework shouldn't reinvent the wheel when it comes to automation APIs
- Appium is a server written in Node.js. It can be built and installed from source or installed directly from NPM
Project Samples
