Noemi Ferrera

💻🤝 Did Appium start as a part of Selenium? Wasn’t it a collaboration? The question was brought up at the recent Q&A with the Selenium Committer's Panel → 📽️youtu.be/lpWwcWsyjQs?t=1080 - moderated by Noemi Ferrera @TheTestLynx Titus Fortner @titusfortner has graciously provided the following response: Each of the Appium languages [client bindings] inherits code from Selenium, but they have never been a part of Selenium itself. Appium and Selenium projects are very tied together, albeit their communication isn’t. I want to take a shot at this and address what Appium is. ✅ An open-source cross-platform mobile automation tool, commonly used for testing. It’s not a test framework. ‣ It’s merely an automation library that lets you control mobile devices and much more. ✅Wraps vendor-provided automation frameworks in a Selenium WebDriver API (Android UiAutomator2, XCUITest, etc.) ‣ The Appium team doesn’t do a lot of low-level automation hackery. They do some, but in general they prefer to wrap automation technology, which has been provided by the makers of the mobile OS’s themselves. ‣ For example, Google has the UiAutomator2 technology, Espresso is the more recent tech. Apple provides the XCTest libraries that allow for UI automation. ‣ Part of the goal is to wrap those technologies up in a way that is accessible from the Selenium WebDriver API. Appium can do this for a lot of reasons, but the WebDriver API is a great way to talk to automation technologies in a variety of languages and using a variety of different tool sets. ✅ Allows authoring of test scripts in any programming language, using any test framework, hooking into any CI system, etc. ✅ Consists of a massive community of practitioners who maintain an ever-expanding knowledge base for different platforms. ‣ The Appium community often does mobile automation for a living. Within the community there is an ever-expanding set of practices and tricks for automating different platforms. ... There is much more to it, but I decided to pick a few main points for brevity. #Appium #test #automation #AutomatedTesting #sqa #sdet #software #QualityEngineer #UIautomation #testing