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Appium vs Calabash

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