Appium vs Concourse: What are the differences?
What is Appium? Automation for iOS and Android Apps. Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid, and mobile web apps. It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver protocol. Appium is sponsored by Sauce Labs and a thriving community of open source developers.
What is Concourse? Pipeline-based CI system written in Go. Concourse's principles reduce the risk of switching to and from Concourse, by encouraging practices that decouple your project from your CI's little details, and keeping all configuration in declarative files that can be checked into version control.
Appium and Concourse are primarily classified as "Mobile Testing Frameworks" and "Continuous Integration" tools respectively.
"Webdriverio support" is the primary reason why developers consider Appium over the competitors, whereas "Real pipelines" was stated as the key factor in picking Concourse.
Appium and Concourse are both open source tools. It seems that Appium with 9.66K GitHub stars and 3.94K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Concourse with 4K GitHub stars and 482 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Appium has a broader approval, being mentioned in 31 company stacks & 21 developers stacks; compared to Concourse, which is listed in 18 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.