What are the advantages and disadvantages of Appium and its working | Software Testing Tool

In this article, you will learn the advantages and disadvantages of the Appium testing Tool and also it's working. 

It is an open-source and free automation mobile testing tool. It is used in testing mobile applications. It is created and maintained by Sauce Labs to automate native, and hybrid mobile applications. It supports cross-platform testing. It means the same set of test cases can be run on different mobile platforms to check the efficiency of the application. Multiple devices can be easily tested on the Appium testing tool in parallel.

Advantages of Appium:

• It is an open-source testing tool that is freely available. It is so easy to install. 
• It permits the automated testing of hybrid, native, and web applications. 
• There is no need to add any additional agents in your application to make appium compatible with automation. It will test the same app, which will be uploaded to the app store. 
• Earlier, it only tested mobile applications of Android and iOS. But now the additional feature is added to Appium that tests the desktop application for windows. 
• Appium supports cross-platform, freely available mobile testing tools that help in testing the mobile application. In general, you can test the application on different platforms. The test cases will run on every platform easily. 

Disadvantages of Appium:

Every tool has some benefits and drawbacks. So as Appium has some drawbacks:

• It lacks a detailed report of the testing. 
• In Appium, the test depends on the remote web driver, so it works a bit slower than other testing tools. 
• The overhead UIAutomator used by Appium for Android supports only the Android SDK, API 16, or higher. Moreover, Appium does support the older APIs through another open-source library Selendroid. 
• In iOS, only one script can run on one Mac OS device, which is a simple way that means only one test can be executed at a time per Mac. If you wish to run the various tests on different iOS devices for that you have to arrange multiple Mac machines. This process becomes so expensive. This problem can be solved by using the mobile cloud of Sauce Lab. It allows the test scripts to run on various iOS simulators at the same time.

Working of Appium Testing Tool

• With the installation of Appium, a server is also installed with it on the machine which works on Rest APIs. 
• It consequently receives the command and connection requests from the client and parallelly executes the command on the devices like iOS and Android. 
• It responds through HTTP.
• To execute requests, it uses a mobile automation framework to run the user interface of an app.