We performed a comparison between Appium and BrowserStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Regression Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We get a list that shows all devices that are connected to the system."
"The automation part is extremely helpful in streamlining our processes."
"Appium has easy interaction with mobile."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The latest versions of the solution are stable."
"We do not need to pay for the solution. It’s free."
"The most valuable feature of Appium is it supports iOS and AOS and is open-source."
"We develop apps using the React Native framework, and Appium integrates well for testing those apps. The Appium automation framework also has good integration with GitHub Actions and plenty of other tools and frameworks, including BrowserStack."
"BrowserStack's best feature is browser testing across different platforms, including mobile."
"The speed of the solution and its performance are valuable."
"The product's initial setup phase was not very difficult."
"It's helpful for me to test on different devices."
"The setup was quite simple. The website easily explains how to set it up and if you want to integrate it with BMP tools there are online simple step tutorials."
"BrowserStack has lots of devices to choose from."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides parallel and cross-browser testing. It enables us to run tests on multiple browsers or devices simultaneously."
"Testing across devices and browsers without maintaining that inventory is invaluable."
"The challenging part with Appium is that installation can be a bit tricky. It can be challenging to set up in Android versus iOS environments."
"The user interface needs improvement because there are issues when setting up environment variables."
"Image recognition could be improved. We have some images in our mobile applications. It should be able to run from the cloud, so we can automate the catcher."
"Appium could improve by enabling record and run techniques similar to what they have in other licensing tools, such as Micro Focus. We have to all write the code, and then we can proceed."
"Appium has problems with automated validations following iOS updates, causing us to have to validate manually."
"It needs to accommodate applications that use React.js and AngularJS."
"I rarely use Appium nowadays because I'm now at the managerial level, but the last time I used it, whenever I selected and clicked on an element, Appium was very slow. I tried to debug it, but I still couldn't find the problem, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement lies with the connector and server. For example, the effort to get into the local machine sometimes causes the emulator to become slow, which then leads to failure in testing, and this is the usual issue I've encountered from Appium. An additional feature I'd like added to Appium in its next release is being able to do automation in iOS without using XPath and the name of the element. In Xcode, you can use previous UI tests for detecting elements, but in Appium, you have to use Xpath and the element name instead of being able to directly put the X-UiPath, which is what you can do in Xcode. In iOS as well, sometimes the element doesn't have a name or a path. Sometimes, there's also no element."
"We haven't been able to fully leverage Appium for multiple reasons. I think number one is just that the tests take a long time to run. We have had some issues around just the results themselves and how predictable they are, but those are not issues with Appium directly."
"Connectivity can sometimes mar the testing experience."
"We had some execution issues."
"I would like for there to be more integration with BrowserStack and other platforms."
"I haven't seen AI in BrowserStack, making it in an area where improvements are required in the product."
"We are struggling to do local testing."
"It is difficult to use for someone who has little to no experience."
"Customer support could be better. We tried to implement and explore this product with the vendor or reseller's help, but we haven't had any good response about the product."
"If you are inactive for 30 minutes, the solution will close."
Appium is ranked 5th in Regression Testing Tools with 25 reviews while BrowserStack is ranked 4th in Functional Testing Tools with 25 reviews. Appium is rated 8.0, while BrowserStack is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Appium writes "It's easy to launch applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of BrowserStack writes "Good in the area of automation and offers a high test coverage to users". Appium is most compared with Katalon Studio, Tricentis Tosca, Perfecto, Xamarin Platform and OpenText UFT One, whereas BrowserStack is most compared with LambdaTest, Sauce Labs, Perfecto, Tricentis Tosca and Selenium HQ. See our Appium vs. BrowserStack report.
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