The tool is an open-source project and has made design and tool decisions to encourage a vibrant contributing community. And that you should be able to use your preferred test practices, frameworks, and tools. This enables code reuse between iOS, Android, and Windows testsuites.Īppium is built on the idea that testing native apps shouldn't require including an SDK or recompiling your app.

Importantly, Appium is “cross-platform”: it allows you to write tests against multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Windows), using the same API. Projects like Phonegap, make it easy to build apps using web technologies that are then bundled into a native wrapper, creating a hybrid app. Hybrid apps have a wrapper around a “webview” – a native control that enables interaction with web content. Mobile web apps are web apps accessed using a mobile browser ( Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in ‘Browser’ app on Android).

Native apps are those written using iOS, Android, or Windows SDKs.

Appium is an open-source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid, and mobile web apps.

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