TEST THE RISK!

If you want to test your mobile application and looking for an open source testing tools then most probably you will face Calabash and Appium . These are the top two most popular tools for mobile automation. At first glance, they seem to be learnt easily but in detail you would have to deal with many challenges and must spend little bit longer time than you expected. Since these tools are open-sourced and still not mature level of quality there would be some problems when you want to use them for your special needs.  In this post I want to write down my experience about Calabash and Appium. This post may help you to choose which one is suitable for your needs. I used following versions: Calabash-Android: 0.7.3 Calabash-iOS: 0.19.1 Appium: 1.5.2 Appium Support Many Languages But Calabash is RUBY! In the background Appium uses Selenium which was created 14 year ago by Thougthwork, check thoughts about Selenium  for mobile testing by Thougthwork. Since Selenium supports Ja

Appium is an open source tool for mobile test automation, you can automate functional test cases for Android and iOS application. As in my some previous posts, I explained Calabash and I just used Ruby for writing test cases because Calabash only supports Ruby and as I know they have plan to support Java. However Appium doesn't have this language constriction. Since it uses Webdriver, it supports the languages which are supported by Webdriver. It means that Java, Objective-C, PHP, Python, C#, Clojure, Perl, JavaScript with Node.js and plus Ruby are supported. You just install the language client you want to test and then write your test cases. Check for the client for your favourite languages from Appium page . Install Appium: npm install -g appium Install Appium Client: npm install wd Install Python Appium Client: pip install Appium-Python-Client Ensure that you have Python installed, recommend to have 2.7 or above: python --version Ensure that you have